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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
no no no, not at all any of that.
i mean that in association football the big teams (man u, bayern, real madrid, etc) tend to dominate mercilessly and pillage the little teams whenever they need new personnel.
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We've mentioned this before talking about MLS..
..that is why personally I prefer Divisional format over the Table System.. Table System rewards the better teams, sure, but it really fucks out the small dogs. In Divisional format, not only do otherwise meaningless games between lesser teams and their better division rivals have more significance, but as I mentioned, the lesser team can even do some serious damage to the better team even if the lesser team fails to make the playoffs. Its happened before where shit teams have shitted on the elite team's seeding in the playoffs by beating them in a single game in the regular season which has dropped the elite teams from 1st seed overall to 3rd or 4th seed.. Also interestingly sometimes three teams can advance from a single division because of Wild Card statuses, or even worse, only a the Division winner can advance because teams from other divisions swooped on the Wild Cards..
Another example of division games having added meaning to otherwise meaningless games, and maybe _tunic_ can add to this since he mentioned be a baseball fan, I was at the LA Dodgers game last night at Dodger Stadium against our division rival the Arizona Diamondbacks.. It was my first ever game at Dodger stadium and so even though I don't even like or really follow baseball I was really into it and had a LOT OF FUN.. What was even better, the D-backs are the Dodgers rival, two years ago we didn't even make the playoffs because we lost 12 games to those dudes, since then we've beat them 13 of 17 times, they are punching bag. So what was I yelling all night at the game every time one of the D-backs got struck out?
"Hey Arizona, y'all better just go home early tonight and watch the WNBA (Women's B-Ball) Finals.. that is the only way Phoenix will ever win a championship!"
Needless to say it added to the good times
