"Rebuilding" is infecting sports

[Name Nameless]

Use just the first half of the season to rank the non-playoff teams in the lottery. It's disgusting to see how so many fans roots for their team to lose the last 30 games when they obviously don't make the play-offs. Have a small pre-lottery lottery where you decide where exactly to place the cut-off, so you reduce the scoreboard watching and desperate "do we make it this year, or should we lose now?" in the games 35-41 or something.

There is still a possibility for very clever owners to ask their team to throw an entire season. But that should really be alienating to their fans.

Also, add some extra lottery-balls to teams who hasn't won recently. Perhaps even a low number of lottery-balls for the teams who loses the first round, so they don't feel like they are doomed to eternal first-round exits so much.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Because it's only one team that wins every year. Of course most of them fail, so do most of everything else.

"like its as easy as a flip of the switch." No, the people who are against rebuilds keep saying that. The people that are at the point where they want their team to rebuild don't think that at all. Actually it's quite the opposite. The people that want a rebuild don't want to sit through mediocrity until the end of eternity hoping for that "miracle run".

I was think a team that's always trying to be competitive is a better franchise than a loser that trades everyone that can play hockey for picks.

As an Oiler fan, the last 11 years have been embarrassing. Especially since I became a fan of them in the 90's because they never gave up and tried hard all every game and left it on the ice. Now we have a team of prima donna's that don't practice hard and a revolving door warm bodies over the last 11 years, 5 coaches and 3 GM's. Losing infects a franchise. Good luck to anyone cheering for the losses.

 

[LeafFever]

Rebuilding is killing the salaries of 30+ sluggers in MLB.

 

[AvroArrow]

Nothing wrong with what the Rangers did, smart move. That core group wasn't gonna win a cup and management was smart enough to realize it before losing complete value in those guys. Given they stick to the process, rangers fans will be really happy they did so in 4ish years, of course that next couple years are going to be painful. But if they can draft right it makes it bearable.

Shutting players down with phantom injuries is a whole other story.