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From: shikago
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Date: 6/2/2012 10:41:35 PM
Milwaukee Lethargy
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Less effort, on the road vs. The Bruins...
In the words of Stuart Scott: boo-yah!
The Milwaukee Lethargy defeat a team with arguably the biggest home/road disparity (performance-wise) over the past few seasons. Even overcoming 16(!) missed FTs.


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From: Peluin

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Date: 6/2/2012 11:47:19 PM
Visionaries
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I've been losing games to Zane Ritter since Season 9 (15132249) and apparently that's a continuing trend.

From: Calum

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Date: 6/4/2012 11:59:15 AM
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Meh, i'm sure you'll get me in the return game. I'm just concerned about my team, there's a distinct lack of balance and i'm waaay under performing my salary... Ritter may be gone soon!

From: Calum

To: Coco
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Date: 6/4/2012 12:34:13 PM
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Happy to keep him given the current NT GS climate. Once we start getting what we need from the others, i'll look into the market. :)

From: Calum
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Date: 6/4/2012 12:36:18 PM
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I actually think the problem with my team is that it's actually too balanced. lol

From: AZ

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Date: 6/5/2012 10:12:41 PM
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I'd like to think that 5 of the 8 games being tank-fests are an unusual occurrence.

From: Calum

To: AZ
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Date: 6/6/2012 1:41:02 AM
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I hope so. Mine was purely related to my cup game, and i'll be interested to see how this is addressed in the upcoming rule changes. :)

From: shikago

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Date: 6/6/2012 3:39:40 AM
Milwaukee Lethargy
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wow, i completely missed the S20 news.
i don't see how they would eliminate tanking though. didn't they already do something to make it less profitable than it used to be? (salary floor + the demotion penalty for much of the following season).

as for late in the season tanking (as opposed to full season tanking)...
they didn't exactly help things with their really awful 5th place "fix" a while back...

From: AZ

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Date: 6/6/2012 9:51:41 AM
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I dont know what they could do besides have a few game tanking penalty towards your attendance. It clearly has to be something financial. Although I'd prefer it if the non-tanking teams received a benefit instead of the tanking teams receiving a penalty.

From: wozzvt

To: AZ
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Date: 6/6/2012 10:09:47 AM
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I dont know what they could do besides have a few game tanking penalty towards your attendance. It clearly has to be something financial. Although I'd prefer it if the non-tanking teams received a benefit instead of the tanking teams receiving a penalty.

The solution is actually really, really easy.

(1) Ramp up the effects of 30+ pt losses on future attendance.

(2) Ramp down the effects of close losses.

(3) Extend out the duration of these effects so that they last more like 4-6 games.

This both provides a motivation to keep it close and a disincentive to completely tank. And it also fixes the problem of the immediately preceding road game having undue influence on home game attendance (by smoothing out the effects over a larger window).

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