Tanking (sports)
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title:
Tanking (sports)
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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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Practice of fielding non-competitive teams
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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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