Yeah if finishing bottom caused you to be relegated rather than rewarding you with better draft prospects it'd definitely cause a more exciting end-season for l

Yeah if finishing bottom caused you to be relegated rather than rewarding you with better draft prospects it'd definitely cause a more exciting end-season for lower-ranked teams. I don't think a single team has ever wanted to finish poorly in any league I've known about here. Though on the flipside failure is punished and that punishment can be brutal. Teams can enter death spirals on being relegated - important players may have release clauses on their contracts stipulating that they can leave on relegation, and the reduced budget from playing at a lower level could make recruiting replacements harder. Some teams handle it well, while others enter multi-year collapses. So while Norwich City appear to be quite happy bouncing between the top two English leagues, back in 2017 Sunderland were relegated from the English premier league to the Championship and the next season were relegated to League One where they got stuck for a couple of seasons (there's a Netflix series that happened to start around this time called "Sunderland 'til I die" which covers this period, it's really interesting and actually a couple of my friends briefly appear in it by coincidence).