In the match-play golf format, nearly every early round match is a tossup, with the higher-seeded golfer only winning at a 58% rate in the first two rounds.
Those incentives are often for winning a conference regular season or tournament championship, maintaining a certain graduation rate or even earning Coach of the Year honors.
Employment is climbing out of a far deeper hole now than in 2004, and there's almost no chance the unemployment rate will be below 7.3% come November, said to be the historical dividing line between winning and losing incumbents.