2025 DC Sports Didn't Even Crack the Top 5 Worst, and That's Actually Worse News
Look, I get it. You're a DC fan, you watched your city's teams implode, and you want to know if you just survived one of the worst years in sports history. I hate to break it to you like this, but the real bad news? You didn't even come close.
The math is brutal. Nationals went 66-96, Commanders finished 5-12, Wizards posted a 17-65 record, and the Capitals missed the playoffs for the first time since 2022-23 despite actually having a winning 43-30 season. That's a bloodbath across the board. But according to the data, DC's 2025 disaster ranked 39th worst for a four-sport city since 1950. Not top five. Not even close.
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Here's how this works: take every team's end-of-year ranking percentile within its league, average them out, and you get a true measure of citywide pain. A 29th-place finish in MLB (out of 30) carries the same weight as a 29th-place finish in the NFL (out of 32). One team per sport, because let's be real, if you're a fan, you're locked in on one squad. The data doesn't care about your feelings.
The only four-sport cities that matter in this conversation are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, DC, Philadelphia, Phoenix, the Twin Cities, and Atlanta. That's it. And when you stack 2025 DC against the worst stretches in modern sports history, it barely registers.
Some Cities Got It Way Worse
Chicago? Try 2022, 2023, and 2024, ranking 17th, 27th, and 34th respectively. That's three straight years of misery. New York in 2017 had six different combinations of the Mets, Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, and Islanders all tanking simultaneously. Some years ranked as high as 18th worst.
But if you want to see true despair, look at Detroit in 2019 and 2020. They ranked 3rd and 1st worst respectively. Not a single team had a shot at the playoffs those two years. COVID shortened the agony, which is maybe the only silver lining those fans got.
So yeah, DC. You had a rough 2025. But you could've had it way worse.
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