This feature was to discourage players from terminating the program to avoid taking a loss.
At beginning, the club was suffering heavy defeats, but this did not discourage the management and players.
He explained that a series of losing seasons was enough to discourage promising players from applying to Columbia.
To me that's a pretty tiny percentage and would seem to indicate baseball has found a way to discourage players from using steroids.
The programs needn't discourage human players in any way: Did sprinting die just because cars could go faster?
Some teams discourage old players from coming around to the locker room.
But that notion was rejected, he said, because permanent death discourages new players, who are more likely to get their characters killed.
The rule was toughened three years ago to discourage players from joining in a fight.
Distance to be traveled does not discourage top players in search of action.
The body fat requirement exists to discourage players from losing excessive weight.