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Originally Posted by TheGrimm
It's flawed because the option to set your team up for failure is often seen as the best way to rebuild, if you can't see this then we are obviously at an impasse.
I am not saying it isn't possible to rebuild in other ways, but the fact that you have teams which are compromising the integrity of the game is disappointing to me, and the NHL has a system which encourages this.
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If it's so flawed, why does EVERY major North American league with a draft do it?
You're disregarding that they teams above them will continue to get better quality players. So not only are you having trouble attracting top tier free agents (who would want to sign for a bottom team that can't improve?), but you can't trade for top tier talent because they have no assets that a team with good assets would be interested in exchanging for. You actually have put them in a black hole.
You say a good GM would be able to get them out of the mess, but that's a lot to ask when the teams above you are potentially getting better quality players into their systems every year, and have every type of advantage over you in attracting players or trading for players. How the heck are they suppose to sign free agents, since the player would actually want to play there? How the heck are they suppose to trade for impact players? They'll have to have impact prospects themselves, or great quality picks. Except the team that would trade with them, probably have better items in both of those categories. And now they can't even get the top tier prospects to help propel their team forward. How the hell are they going to get better? Explain that. Because if you can figure out a technique to pull a team from the basement to a competitor under this system, then perhaps it can be viable. (But stupid)
I don't know how you don't see how idiotic it preventing bad teams from getting the first picks is. There's a reason why every league has given favour to those teams in drafts. It's because it makes complete sense, and is most fair.