Actually I didn't realize until this last two weeks how big the drops in arena income are just for taking 1 or 2 losses.
Its mostly road games. If you lose most road games, like most NBBA teams do, at best still only 3 or 3.5 overall for home games. In a perfect world you could have a strong enough team to aim for winning the road games and then cup games. That would take a team that's not just better, but much better due to the extreme effect of HCA in BB (roughly double the effect from real life/NBA).
Heres the performance of the trophy winning teams in both league and cup in recent seasons:
S21
league champ - Bullish: cup finals
cup champ - King Drive: 6th in league
S20
league - Burlington: round of 64 in cup
cup - Visionaries: 6th in league
S19
league - Boomshakalakas: cup quarterfinals
cup - Silverbacks: 4th in league
S18
league - lake merritt: cup quarterfinals
cup - milwaukee lethargy: 4th in league
S17
league and cup - lake merritt
S16
league - lake merritt: cup quarterfinals
cup - silverbacks: 4th in league
S15:
league - chicago bulls: round of 1024 (4th round)
cup - silverbacks: 4th in league
But for season 16, its clear that pulling both off is not common. Lots of league champs making it to the last few rounds, but if you dont win those you miss out on lots of cup money.
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