Hear me out:
“Blind standings”. Don’t tell any of the teams the other teams records or the standings except for their own. They will have to default to just trying to win every game.
I guess teams could get around this by watching the other games and manually keeping track of the records but that seems too time consuming. and it’s cost inefficient if teams have to manually hire someone to keep track of that for all 32 teams.
How do you think people counted standings before the internet?
Used to be able to call up David Stern and ask him for the standings it was a really cool feature
Can confirm.
He was legally obligated to tell you the standings, and the correct time of day.