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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7726670" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>It's true that many tournaments are designed to maximize the chances that the top seeds make it through to the later stages (which is why the NCAA basketball tourney matches seeds 1 vs 16 in each region in the first games), but it's not true that sporting leagues generally don't try for reasonably fair competition. The NFL and NBA have salary caps that strongly encourage championship teams to break up as their players all increase in marketability and become too expensive to be kept together. Leagues that hold a draft allocate better pick opportunities to the worst teams. They share certain kinds of revenue to boost the ability of smaller market teams to recruit better players. At the college level, schools have limits on their rosters, their scholarships, and face fairly strict recruitment regulations. At the high school level, teams (at least in Wisconsin) are grouped into playoff divisions based on their size, as are conferences when possible.</p><p></p><p>None of those measures lead to perfectly even competition, of course. But they do tend to keep things dynamic and with more balance than just size of the teams.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 7726670, member: 3400"] It's true that many tournaments are designed to maximize the chances that the top seeds make it through to the later stages (which is why the NCAA basketball tourney matches seeds 1 vs 16 in each region in the first games), but it's not true that sporting leagues generally don't try for reasonably fair competition. The NFL and NBA have salary caps that strongly encourage championship teams to break up as their players all increase in marketability and become too expensive to be kept together. Leagues that hold a draft allocate better pick opportunities to the worst teams. They share certain kinds of revenue to boost the ability of smaller market teams to recruit better players. At the college level, schools have limits on their rosters, their scholarships, and face fairly strict recruitment regulations. At the high school level, teams (at least in Wisconsin) are grouped into playoff divisions based on their size, as are conferences when possible. None of those measures lead to perfectly even competition, of course. But they do tend to keep things dynamic and with more balance than just size of the teams. [/QUOTE]
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