This is not a marathon, it's basketball so allow me to use a more realistic comparison. Tell me, at which point in time will the NBA reset?
So now after I prove that the marathon example (one of you) gave works even better as one of my argument, it is not valid? Interesting...
The marathon's comparison argument stands.
Anyhow, on the NBA there are soft and hard cap.
This season saw the rise of a team which was started in season 7 to the top. Like I said, all it takes is proper long term planning to get to the top, old team or new team. Look at Australia as well. Focusing on one or two league suggests something, but cannot be used as proof.
1) Regarding the Austrakian ABBL league I already written.
2) So there is finally a team from season 7 in your first league, and none from the 10 seasons ended afterwards, and you call it a competative system? Interesting once again...
This is even w/o taking a look what happened to those older teams.
Did they left the game or something else?