Tanking (sports)

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title: Tanking (sports)
text: Tanking in sports refers to the practice of intentionally fielding non-competitive teams to take advantage of league rules that benefit losing teams. This is a much more common practice in American sports that utilize closed leagues than in open sports leagues in other nations, which typically penalize poor performers using a promotion and relegation system, in which the worst teams after each season are sent to a lower-tiered league and replaced with that league's best teams. Relegation costs t
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description: Practice of fielding non-competitive teams
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanking_(sports)
date created: 2019-11-13T11:51:32Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T23:29:57Z
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