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Playoffs between small market teams get low ratings, like the New Jersey
Nets/San Antonio Spurs championship game. But a lot people inside sports
seem to resent big market teams (Yankees, LA Lakers) consistently
dominating the play-offs, although audiences seem to want dynasties from
big cities.
At 01:31 PM 7/10/2003 -0500, Fabio wrote:
... But a lot people inside sports
seem to resent big market teams (Yankees, LA Lakers) consistently
dominating the play-offs, although audiences seem to want dynasties from
big cities.
Is there an inherent problem here? Is it inevitable that there is a
con
Robin said:
> The conflict you describe is that some people want more of a fair fight, and
> others put more weight on wanting "my team to win". Of course the second
> group doesn't want to win via too easy or obvious an advantage. They may want
> the rough appearance of fairness, but in fact w
In truth, the major pro sports (at least in the US and Canada)have very
different buisness models that to different degrees skew the system to
big and small market teams.
First and formost, every league has different revenue sharing agreements
between its membership. To my recollection, the NFL
> Why do relatively similar endeavors have such different business models?
Perhaps it is social learning. Baseball was founded in the 19th century
with few rules, while the modern NFL was a product of the 1960's. So
people may have had more experience with the sports business, which was
used in d
In my informal experience, fathers and sons tend to work together full-time only in professions with strict licensing or training requirements. Electricians, lawyers, realtors and even CPAs - I've found more father/son teams here than in any other type of job. All of those jobs have fairly rigid
