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Some teams have intentionally thrown games just to get higher draft picks for the next season.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-astros-tanked-their...



They do/did it in e-sports too. But for video game skins they can trade for money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike_match_fixing_sc...




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