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Originally Posted by klikitiklik
You'd want a soccer situation where only two teams ever make the final because NO ONE can keep up with the richest teams? That is the worst system ever. No one else even has a chance.
Yes please lets make it so only the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple leafs are ever in the cup final. Sounds like great viewing.
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With some more basic controls it can be a great system.... some form of revenue sharing without completely eliminating any differences between the franchises that attract people to them and give them personality. Richer teams with more fans win more often but you want a system where poorer teams are competitive and can have windows if well managed instead of turning sports teams into a bunch of McDonalds franchises where the end goal is just to squeeze as much money out of us as possible by providing a uniform experience.
Hard cap and draft rewarding losing just dumb down the business of sports so much and rewards mediocrity and poor decisions, really feels like the intent is just to keep people with short attention spans engaged who won't stick with anybody but a winning team. Also for me the key is players should be coming up through local academy and development systems, its nonsense to be assigning them at random to communities they have no connection to based on failure. Ultimately they have our generation but a time will come when the teams will need to be more representative of the place they play for.
Anyway I think a non wage spending cap would just be another step towards sucking the personality out of sports.