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.
It always trips me out how kids think certain things are impossible without the fucking internet.
Newspapers still actually exist, and beat writers still publish articles about the games. Local TV news still discussed the games every night.
Like, those aren’t even bygone relics of the past that no longer exist. It’s still happening today. But kids in their teens and twenties have just obviously never seen a newspaper or a local TV news program, like literally ever in their life.