As a person who played sports all throughout my childhood (never at a professional level) I'm very competetive and have been on the winning culture and losing culture and I can tell you the losing culture sucks. I can never root for purposely losing just to possibly get a player but there's nothing wrong with believing my team isn't good enough to be a playoff team therefore they might just be bad enough to land a once in a generation type of player all by themselves and not ever have to root for it. 😀