[HN Gopher] Predictability, Home Advantage, and Fairness in Team...
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       Predictability, Home Advantage, and Fairness in Team Sports
        
       Author : mikk14
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-01-31 10:03 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | rufus_foreman wrote:
       | The article doesn't mention salary caps which are used in some
       | leagues to try to make sure most teams are competitive. Are
       | salary caps socialist? Putting a hard cap on the total amount of
       | wages that all workers put together can earn doesn't sound
       | socialist to me. Doesn't sound capitalist either, sounds like a
       | cartel.
       | 
       | Salary caps do seem to make for parity in the sports leagues that
       | use them. Your medium size market team has a legitimate chance of
       | winning a championship at some point in your life. The trade-off
       | is that you never get to see the best players in the world
       | playing for a championship. You see one or two of the best
       | players on each team, and whatever other players the team could
       | afford under the cap.
       | 
       | I wouldn't want there to be a salary cap on the company designing
       | my next laptop.
        
         | jrockway wrote:
         | I feel like both outcomes are equally boring. Even as a New
         | Yorker, you eventually get tired of the Yankees winning the
         | World Series. On the other hand, the Giants, Jets, and Bills
         | blowing it every year is also not that fun.
        
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