Is it easier to build a winning mlb team,nfl team, or a nba team
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THASTUNNA
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I think it's harder to build a MLB team. When you draft players you usually have to give em time to devolop in your system because they are raw players in most cases. Plus depending how much money you have to work with you have to assembly within that budget.
...yeah but nobody REALLY builds thru the draft. If you have money in baseball and are willing to spend you can easily have a winning team
Brehs there is no salary cap in baseball. Coca cola can decide to buy the braves and give the gm a blank check and they sign fielder and all the bluechip FAs and walk to the nlcs.
Nintendo did it with the mariners, but sold the players off when their investment choked.
Filthy McNasty
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It might be easier to build a winning NBA team (mainly by getting lucky in the draft) but few teams have actually won a championship...so to build a championship NBA team is obviously very difficult.
Captain Crunch
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That is so false. Most winning teams in baseball, have success by drafting good players and/or acquiring players through trade. The Rays/Nats/Rangers have had their success, because of the methods I listed above.
Sure the Yankees had success w/ FA's, but a good portion of their best players are a result of drafting and/or trading. Derek Jeter; Mariono Rivera, Jorge Posada, Bernie Williams, and Andy Pettite were key members of the 96-03 run they had, and they were all homegrown players.
Yeah it is because stud, franchise guys don't come along every year or every 5 years for that matter. Once you have a franchise guy in the NBA it's easier to build a winner around him then it is for an NFL or MLB team. MLB requires so much more patience and NFL requires you to be so thorough and get draft picks right more often than not even if you do have a franchise guy. More guys have to do more to pull their weight in MLB and NFL whereas in the NBA 1 guy can carry you the playoffs, 2 guys can make you a competitor and 3 can get you in the Finals and a championship.
Exactly. When they started doing all the big FA spending they weren't winning WS. They only won one WS in a decade where they spent 2 billion dollars.
MooseMouthMthafuga
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I think Baseball is the easiest.
Followed by the NFL.
Basketball is weird.It seems like everything has to align just right in order to be successful.
Chemistry...Coaching staff...Having marketable players that the NBA will favor and cause the refs to go into "protection mode" ...aka..hook you up with some bias officiating.
It just seems like it's harder to get over that hump in the NBA
Followed by the NFL.
Basketball is weird.It seems like everything has to align just right in order to be successful.
Chemistry...Coaching staff...Having marketable players that the NBA will favor and cause the refs to go into "protection mode" ...aka..hook you up with some bias officiating.
It just seems like it's harder to get over that hump in the NBA
But when were the yankees not a winning team??
Exactly. If you want a winner in baseball you spend money point blank. I mean if you dig far enough you can find exceptions but they are just that; exceptions.
How is it easy in the NBA?
You have to be able to 1st:
1.) Be in a market that players like
2.) be in the lottery
3.) Win the lottery or hope your franchise player falls to your team's pick in case you don't win the lottery.
4.) Oh by the way, hope the player you pick #1 is a transcendent, franchise player ala Tim Duncan or Lebron James that you can build around.
Just because you pick in the lottery doesn't mean that once-in-a generation talent is available to draft the year you win or are in the lottery..
You also have to not have bad contracts on your payroll to have the flexibility to build around your transcendent star.
Oh and also hope your star will want to stay in your city during his prime..
A lot of it is based on luck as well as smarts.
It's mad hard..
You have to be able to 1st:
1.) Be in a market that players like
2.) be in the lottery
3.) Win the lottery or hope your franchise player falls to your team's pick in case you don't win the lottery.
4.) Oh by the way, hope the player you pick #1 is a transcendent, franchise player ala Tim Duncan or Lebron James that you can build around.
Just because you pick in the lottery doesn't mean that once-in-a generation talent is available to draft the year you win or are in the lottery..
You also have to not have bad contracts on your payroll to have the flexibility to build around your transcendent star.
Oh and also hope your star will want to stay in your city during his prime..
A lot of it is based on luck as well as smarts.
It's mad hard..
How is it easy in the NBA?
You have to be able to 1st:
1.) Be in a market that players like
2.) be in the lottery
3.) Win the lottery or hope your franchise player falls to your team's pick in case you don't win the lottery.
4.) Oh by the way, hope the player you pick #1 is a transcendent, franchise player ala Tim Duncan or Lebron James that you can build around.
Just because you pick in the lottery doesn't mean that once-in-a generation talent is available to draft the year you win the lottery..
You also have to not have bad contracts on your payroll to have the flexibility to build around your transcendent star.
Oh and also hope your star will want to stay in your city during his prime..
A lot of it is based on luck as well as smarts.
It's mad hard..
You do understand the difference between relative (easier) and definitive (easy) right?
A bad GM can flourish in the NBA if he stumbles into the right player or two. Stumbling into the right player or two in baseball or football doesn't really do much for you in terms of winning. You have far more moving parts to find and to fill the team with than you do in basketball. That's my basis for saying it's easier.
But what if that bad GM gave out some bad contracts that totally handicap your franchise for years?
Then your up shyt's creek..
This is true. I am not denying that being an NBA GM has it's challenges I am only saying that MLB and NFL have more challenges. Their are plenty of baseball teams up that same shyts creek and there is no Bron or Duncan that can turn them around immediately. They gotta build up a farm system or they will continue to suck. In football the only way to turn around is to find the right guys to fill your team out in the draft. One great pick or FA pick up can completely turn a NBA teams fortunes. Can't say the same for the other two sports.
MrFantastic
Pro
I disagree... With the way the Nba is structured you make one false move...and you set back.. If u suck and your draft has no franchise changing players in it... You done..and in the NBA you can rarely draft depth...nowadays you need atleast three impact players to suceed.. That means 25 percent of your players roster who probabaly make up 75 percent of your payroll HAVE TO WORK!!! And you gotta make sure people come to the games..
NFL you can correct almost any mistake at anytime when you see its not working.. You can draft depth.. You can draft franchise.. You have more opportunities to find diamonds in the rough..
The yankess also are in contention... The mets dont contend bc they really dont have direction..