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Originally Posted by HRBaker
By far, the BEST way to stop tanking is to make the Perfect Level "competitive". If teams weren't finding themselves 40+ games out after finally reaching Perfect, they wouldn't be tanking. Reduce the number of teams in Perfect to a level they can actually compete with each other. The rest of us can compete at Diamond and Gold.
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I'm less sympathetic with this point of view since I started to pay attention to my "B" team. 4 times relegated from Perfect, the 5th time is the charm. Last week winning 107 games and this week should easily surpass that while having a team with 12-13 golds and 37+ games ahead of the 2nd place team with its 8 perfects and 17 diamonds. I would still have to get past the 13-time perfect champion Moline in the playoffs, but Collingwood has lost to worse teams than my "B" team. Maybe I should be upset by the team in the other league who has a very suspicious "tanking" record with a long tenure in iron and bronze followed by a rocket launch to perfect in recent weeks. This team found a way to score 1000+ runs while giving up just as many. One season in bronze it was 1282 runs scored while giving up 1275 runs. I sure would like to see that roster.