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dkgo · 06-01-2020, 08:37 AM

Not sure what youd propose to fix the "bad system". The playoffs are what people care about thus where the media money is coming from. Regular season games are irrelevant and most mean absolutely nothing once you get past May and half the league is tanking. Only gambling degenerates are watching the marlins vs padres. So your goals of "not watering down the regular season" and "increasing regular season revenue" work against each other.

The NFL regular season is perfectly interesting every week. The NBA's problem is that there are maybe 10 players good enough to matter and they all want to play on the same team so you enter the season with less than 5 real contenders.

06-01-2020, 08:37 AM	#45
dkgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,152	Not sure what youd propose to fix the "bad system". The playoffs are what people care about thus where the media money is coming from. Regular season games are irrelevant and most mean absolutely nothing once you get past May and half the league is tanking. Only gambling degenerates are watching the marlins vs padres. So your goals of "not watering down the regular season" and "increasing regular season revenue" work against each other. The NFL regular season is perfectly interesting every week. The NBA's problem is that there are maybe 10 players good enough to matter and they all want to play on the same team so you enter the season with less than 5 real contenders.