How interesting. What seemed like a big advantage for attracting investment may turn out to be more harmful than helpful.

I still think it may turn out to be useful. To me, the problem with the way that they did it is that they basically just did "set and forget". IMO, a more thoughtful and dynamic method is needed for finding optimal values at any point in time.

This is quite disappointing. I had hope that the clubs would have an effect.

It's just me guessing, though. An actual analysis has not been done (AFAIK). I could easily be wrong.