For question 1 use NHL league standings for 2019-2020

Choose a sports league other than MLB. (Some possible choices are the NFL, NHL, NBA, MLS, WNBA, NWSL, EPL, Serie A, La Liga, or numerous college conferences in any sport.) Find the nal standings for two or more recent years. Describe your data. Tell me how you are going to deal with anomalies in the data, e.g. expansion teams, ties, promotion/relegation, number of games played, etc. Turn in a copy of your data with the assignment Calculate the within season (intra-season) competitive balance of your league using the standard deviation method of win percentage ratio method. Compare the competitive balance of your league to a recent season of MLB. Is your league more or less competitive than MLB? You can download the stats in Excel format for the 2018 and 2019 MLB seasons from Canvas. Make sure you account for differences in the season length when comparing the leagues. Calculate the between season (inter-season) competitive balance of your league using a measure of your choice. (Possible measures include the n-rm concentration ratio for championships or playoff appearances, HHI for championships or playoff appearances, inter-season correlation, and inter-season rank correlation.) Using the same measure you used in part d., compare your league to MLB. Is your league more or less competitive than MLB or is it not possible to tell with the measure you used? If you need to collect other data on inter-season competitive balance for MLB, historical data is available at www.mlb.com or https://www.baseball-reference.com/