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Sport economics

teams deliberately losing late-season games to improve their draft position when draft rules reward poor records.

In sport economics, tanking refers to teams deliberately losing late-season games to improve their draft position when draft rules reward poor records. This meaning comes from Taylor (2002) in Journal of Labor Economics.[1]

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References

Taylor, B. A., & Trogdon, J. G. (2002). Losing to Win: Tournament Incentives in the National Basketball Association. Journal of Labor Economics, 20(1), 23-41. https://doi.org/10.1086/323930

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