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To be honest I get as much as you do about the elastic effect. Just enough to know that it could be in jeopardy if training was changed up slightly

Last edited by oriolekid at 4/19/2011 6:42:28 PM

Owners of the strongest teams grew tired of handing a large share of television revenue to teams that didn’t contribute to the strength of their league -- such teams tanking a season would generally turn out to be making a mistake, but that mistake also dragged down television revenue and fan interest for the other teams in their league.

My bank account and great young players created from training while tanking are merely a mirage. It seems I've made a mistake. What have I done!

edit - well, Charles did say "generally", i guess

Last edited by brian at 4/19/2011 7:23:14 PM

And Sharman and his astronomically large bank account would also like to join you for cocktails at the "Where did I go wrong" convention ;)

Edit:This isn't as funny now since Sharman is back in the JBBL after successfully tanking.

Last edited by oriolekid at 4/19/2011 7:48:18 PM

I dont like this "fix", as it really does not solve anything. Most tanking teams will get/keep three players that will keep them above the ridiculously low floor and still make truckloads of cash.

The floor in my league is ~116k, nowadays its really hard to be below this amount - three trainees in later stages of their training will keep you over this sum...

Yeah. For the most part. They cut salaries and thus their revenue increases (just like in BB).

i think that there are some differences between fan reactions of europe and usa. imo, loldots is right for most examples as he said. if fans really believe there are great talents and franchise players of future, they keep coming the arena and watch them. maybe, clubs' merchandising revenue aren't so high (but not ridiculosly low) however gate receipts will stiill be enoughly high.

okc is good example for this. i know that they went to a new city which boost their gate receipts but mostly fans came to watch the talents like kd, russwest. also wolves is another good example. if i am not wrong, their arena was full after years this year just because of kevin love's unusual performance and record. american fans can easily came to arenas, just a small excitement is enough for them. even in english premier league in europe, there are several examples like these.

as generel, i think that there are some supporting arguments and examples in nba for bbs. maybe we should acknowledge them to be right up to a point.