The Paulista during Pelé's era

In order to evaluate the level & competitivity of the Paulista when Pelé played there I made some researches, explored some statistics and I'm making this post to share those researches.
Comparing this league to other leagues and especially examining the level of the Paulista compared to nowadays is quite of a hard thing to do but to have a good comparison I decided to compare some data from Paulista from 1957 to 1968 (after that year the format changed and it's quite...

The Paulista during Pelé's era