[Pantherdreams]

People like transparency.

As an employee I like the idea of my employer, boss, etc. Closely examining my work and letting me know what they like and what they don't. Gives me a firm understanding of where I stand. I'm also ok with them deciding that my judgement doesn't align with how they want a situation handled, it allows me and all the other representatives of their product to stay on the same page.

The only really questionable point here (that wouldn't happen in a regular work space) is that the results are made public. That level of transparency couldn't happen in a variety of work spaces for a number of reasons. Also many people wouldn't be comfortable having their formal evaluations part of public record. My feeling is that if you know going in that its part of the job and you still want the job, fair enough.

In multi billion dollar industries tied to public perception and entitlement the league does what it can to deliver a consistent message and product. All things considered and number of individuals and moving pieces involved in not only the contest itself,but the entire league, it does a great job.

The biggest problem is that professional sport is often used as the guide or standards by which amateur sports are judged, create rules, and institute policies. The more that sport as an industry keeps being lumped in with sport as a amateur recreational endeavour (thank you Olympics and NCAA for keeping those waters muddy) the more the uninformed general public is going to treat what happens at the Coliseum the same as they end up treating the little kids and officials/coaches in the training pits. This isn't an NBA problem this is a public relations/site management problem for amateur leagues and associations compounded by the general masses inability to make inferential and critical tangents of thoughts in regards to sport culture.