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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Its hard to say. It's not like the Olympics messes with the SC playoffs. Or the Olympics with basketball messes with the reg season. You would think it would get people pumped where they would otherwise be reading about the preseason exercises.
I think this is the perfect time for the league to maximize. Basketball has no parity with these super teams basically just rolling over the competition. And Baseball doesn't have the McGuires and Sosas juiced up hitting dingers. So why not draw in the other fans?
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Poor example using the NBA and actually a case study in how maybe parity isn't the great fix that leagues have been looking to achieve. The NBA's popularity is soaring right now. A few years ago they were actually in danger of being unseated by the NHL in the four major sports.
If anything I'm now starting to wonder if the extra revenue from teams that are slightly out of the playoffs, but not actually going to make it isn't all that much more than when teams are really out of it. And maybe the extra revenue from having elite teams that fans come out in other cities to see and tune it on TV to see more than make up for the missed revenue in lack of parody.