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Old 08-09-2007, 07:55 AM
MicroBob MicroBob is offline
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Default Re: Unorthodox Sports Team Management

BadBoy - I mostly agree.
I was being kind and assuming that it only costs a team 2 games but I truly think the OP doesn't realize how bad a strategy some of this stuff would be.
At the NFL level, doing some of these types of things would be virtual suicide and no amount of media exposure for how creative and quirky you are is going to make up for the all the money you lose after you drop one 42-7 game after another after another.

But even if it is somehow done in a way that doesn't get your team clobbered every week and truly does only change 2 wins into losses I still think that sacrificing the very real chance that a 6-10 team can get it together and make a run for 8 or 9 wins is not worth it at all.

The fact that you would not at all make more money but would, in fact, make less money because all your fans would hate you for getting unnecessarily clobbered all the time makes it even less worthwhile.
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