[bombcar]

Owners don’t care about winning, but about profitability. And you can make a lot of money with a failing football team (selling/trading draft picks, etc) and your fans get used to losing …

[xnorswap]

Right, I forgot you guys have "The Draft", so failing is an advantage, doubly so if you can sell your draft picks, because then you can keep losing by having sold away the mechanism for getting you competitive again.

I am so glad the proposed "European super league" was killed off so hard, so that we don't get a franchise model, it produces so many adverse incentives.

[bombcar]

The thing I like about EU football is that if your team sucks arse through a garden hose too long, your entire team gets demoted to a lower league.

That would put a fire under some asses!

[rbonvall]

Note that it's not a European thing. It's how most football leagues around the world work.

[triceratops]

Drafts and no relegation.

[lordgrenville]

More to the point, in the US losing teams get rewarded in the form of draft picks, which sometimes creates perverse incentives. This doesn't exist in European football. (Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about American sports.)

[bombcar]

Draft picks + salary caps and the various workarounds involved there make it more of a financier's dream than a competitive sport.

[The_Blade]

just wait until you get to the subject of tanking in the NBA

is there a tech equivalent? like you do a crappy job with your series A on purpose which helps you get a better series B. although there is the notion of a big round of layoffs to secure further investment