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Old 03-16-2018, 03:32 PM   #80
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I don't think it's a perfect system, there are lots of things that don't work well there either but it's way better than North American sports leagues which are increasingly so "fair" they have become devoid of nuance outside of the game to game outcomes and feel like they are set up just to distract idiots with short attention spans. Every player is from somewhere else randomly assigned by a draft that rewards losing and every team has the same spending power to even things out. The only thing that's local or unique is the jersey and the owner.
Sports are supposed to be "fair". That's kind of the whole point of sports isn't it?

Would you want to watch a 100m race where you could buy your starting position and the richest competitor started at the 50 meters mark?
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