RE: The Carolina Panthers are laughably bad. Zero-win season ahead?
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I wonder what the bookies make of them as they have to win at least one game through luck. I think it is and that teams can do this type of thing which makes you wonder if the owners just do not care.
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It is starting to get a bit suspicious about the owners but I don't think any owner intentionally makes a bad team in NFL. There aren't enough home games for that to be profitable. This was something that NBA teams would intentionally do in the 80's though and someone made a documentary about the Los Angeles Clippers and how they spent very little money but figured out how to be "just good enough" to get people into the arenas and be a profitable team. While other teams were spending tens of millions on single players the Clippers just sat back and had .500 seasons on purpose.
Shocking really and why promotion / relegation is healthy for any league. I would guess the owners would change what they do very quickly.
I would love a relegation system in the NFL. I think the barriers to entry are just too high for that to happen though. I wonder if it has ever even been discussed.
There has to be a penalty for coming last or in the bottom 2 otherwise there is no competition and is meaningless for those who are not competing at the top end. If they know they could get relegated it makes the competition more competitive. Strength vs strength and not having weaker teams in the mix who cannot compete who do not belong in the league.
It won't happen as much as I would like to see it. The NFL is immensely profitable and as they say "if it aint broke, don't fix it."
I understand that ,but they are not improving it either and is more about protecting the owners than making it more competitive. The NFL could be much bigger with every game being important and not just certain games. Just think they could milk the relegation games with playoffs which would generate so much interest for the weaker teams. If all teams were strong the top teams would have no easy give me games.
oh and there is always going to be a few people that bet on the long shot, normally against the spread in the hopes that Carolina will suck less than they are expected to. Some consider this to be a good bet to take because once a team is exposed as being weak, opposing teams will often sit out their best players or not go "all in" so to speak when they know they don't have to in order to win. Teams generally are not interested in covering the spread and are just in it for a win. Well unless they are involved in some sort of illegal gambling rig and that would be really tough to pull off with so many people on one team.
Yes I can see that happening at least once per season and it is a hard one to get right because it will be only 1 game out of many.