LMAO wrote:StLGooner wrote:All this complaining about the NBA and yet this is exactly how European football is. In each league there is 1 or 2 teams that can realistically win it, with the exception of the Prem. So why is it ok for football but not the NBA?
Because our leagues have a salary cap, plus a luxury tax for the leagues with soft caps, that at least try to give the illusion of parity.
What's weird is, baseball who doesn't have a salary cap still I believe (but they do have profit sharing), has pretty good parity in the league, but then the NBA who does have one has zero parity.
The NFL who has a cap has good parity, even though you still have the Patriots who are giving it a real run for the championship each year, but that's down to them just running their team real well, and that is how it should be done really. The people that work at your club/franshise whatever you want to call it, should matter all the way down to the scouting level. But when you can just buy your team and win trophies, scouts don't really matter as much, because you're just buying already established top class players, instead of relying on the talent of your scouts to find gems.
I love football, obviously that's why I'm on this forum, but I hate that we have these super teams in most leagues that are realistically going to be the only ones that win. Spain and Germany are probably the worst right now. I like the parity that the Prem is showing right now, even though that has meant us dropping out of the top 4.