Definition of a League Season and Championship Year: There can be some confusion defining what sports league season “year” is and how it relates to our standard twelve month calendar. Some of the smaller sports leagues will have a season that runs a few months where the season start and championship finale take place within a single calendar year. The WNBA would be an example of this. Their year/season runs within the 12 month calendar year. Their 2006 season ran from May to August and can be easily identified as the “WNBA 2006 Season”. MLB has a longer season but it still begins begins and ends within the same calendar year. Confusion can arise with those sports leagues that run from the fall, through the winter, into the spring like the NBA and NHL. The NBA and NHL both had games that started in the last quarter of 2005 and ran all the way into April of 2006. This is why they will hyphenate their seasons to be 2005-06. Since we want to standardize what is an actual season between all of the various sports league. Does the 2005-2006 NBA season belong to the 2005 or 2006 calendar years? Major-Leagues.com […]