All sports should have a major league and a minor league. Then at the end of the season the best minor league team should play the worst major league team and the winning team is made a major team, while the loser is made a minor.
Posted by Available-Drama-276@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 24 comments
I mean, lots will be watching the World Series, Super Bowl, whatever…
But I promise EVERYONE will be watching the game after that to determine who gets to be a major league team.
Imagine the Jets getting kicked down to the minors because they lose to the Sheboygan Slugs would blew peoples minds.
And I would LOVE to see both teams fight for their lives.
Eriklano1@reddit
One of the only countries in the world that use the Dumb way instead of the Smart way: we should try the Smart way! I’m so Smart!
zzay@reddit
This is too american for me. All other countries have major and a bunch of smaller leagues..
Fireproofspider@reddit
That's obviously not true and would be sports dependant.
Most leagues in Canada don't work like that (with a relegation mechanic). And a quick search tells me that leagues like KHL, AFL, IPL, etc don't have that either.
Also, the concept isn't alien in the US, just that their professional leagues don't work like that. If you aren't talking about relegation specifically, then the US has a ladder system from school level to minor to major leagues, but it's the players that move from one to the other, not the teams. The result is that it's highly unlikely that a team from a minor league would defeat one from the major league.
zzay@reddit
sport dependent obviously
lying? me? not really
you can check this handy https://www.sofascore.com/ sport site that list major and minor leagues in different countries.. look how many there are...
Fireproofspider@reddit
The US has minor leagues as well.
JawtisticShark@reddit
I feel like this would just quickly become a cycle of a pair of teams swapping every year. There will likely be quite the skill gap between the two, and therefore the major team in the minors will likely win the following year, and the minor team in the majors will get crushed. there might be a chance that another teams swaps every other year though.
But a big reason why this will never happen is that sports isn't really about skill, its about entertainment, major cities dump tons of money into stadiums and recruiting teams for their city to boost the status of the city. No city wants to invest all of that only to risk getting bumped out of the major league, and you end up with some minor league team in some less populated area in a smaller stadium that can't support the crowds that a major league team would bring in.
As much as people get angry about it, Sports is basically the longest running versions of Reality TV.
choadster_@reddit
Its worked for the rest of the world
d20diceman@reddit
They described the exact situation in British Premier League Soccer. The teams which get demoted at the end of each season are, almost without exception, the ones who got promoted at the end of the previous season. Even when a Premier League team does absolutely dreadfully, they have almost no chance of being demoted, because the demotion slots will always be occupied by teams who never stood a chance of competing in the top league. Definitely a real problem.
choadster_@reddit
Only in the past few seasons. Hopefully this year will be different
SugestedName@reddit
American thinks his idea is new while the whole world already does that
CharlemagneAdelaar@reddit
expecting everyone to always know everything is unrealistic
juanzy@reddit
It also would require reworking free agency in the US leagues or we’d have mega-teams just parked in the top league.
OutsideScaresMe@reddit
I doubt OP is claiming the idea as their own. Leading with “all sports” implies OP knows that some sports already do it
Grechoir@reddit
Wait. How do they decide now which teams are major and which are minor league?
JCMiller23@reddit
Just an agreement with the league whenever the franchise is founded
2BallsInTheHole@reddit
AFC is Major, duh! /s
migukau@reddit
This take is so american it hurts. This is just how sports work everywhere in the world, america is the only exception because you dont have actual sports leagues you have companies and entertainers.
OutsideScaresMe@reddit
As a baseball fan I’d love for this to happen tbh there’s too many teams unwilling to field competitive teams and this would disincentivize that
Shradersofthelostark@reddit
I’d want to see a 7-game series, though. Anything can happen in a single game.
orangeducttape7@reddit
Well and also the minor league teams are owned by the major league teams
OutsideScaresMe@reddit
You’d probably have to have a complete separate pool of teams none of which are farm teams for current MLB teams and then they’d all need their own farm teams lol
Chicken-picante@reddit
You should watch Ted Lasso or Welcome to Wrexham. Idk about other sports but that’s how soccer leagues work
wooyea02@reddit
Soccer leagues around the world have relegation, and all sports doing it would be awesome. Adding a “play in” game so to speak slices it up even more. I love it.
wizardrous@reddit
This would certainly spice things up.