In professional sports a successful season should be at least making the playoffs. Anything less than that is a failure Now depending on the circumstances it doesn’t mean you lose your job, etc But if you getting paid a lot of money to play, coach or run a team your job is to get to the postseason period. All these other buzzwords are nonsense. If you want to get participation ribbons for the year than go coach high schoo, college or your local beer league team This American idea of tanking that has become acceptable is a scourge to our way of life and humanity as a whole and needs to be stamped out.