dead-rubber
...that a dead-rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches?
...that a <b id="mwBvc"><a class="mw-redirect" href="./Dead-rubber" id="mwBvg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dead-rubber">dead-rubber</a></b> is a term used in <a href="./Sport" id="mwBvk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sport">sporting</a> parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches?