Ever have it where you know the team you’re rooting for has no shot to win it all? Technically, anything can happen on any given Sunday and every team has a chance to pull off the greatest of upsets, but when it comes to professional sports, the top team often separate themselves from the pack.
This leads many fan bases to plead with their favorite teams to “tank”, or essentially lose games on purpose for a better draft position to take higher-ranking prospects. The theory makes some sort of sense if you know for a fact that a certain draft prospect is going to be the next superstar in the league, but as we have seen over the years, even the best draft prospects can bust.