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Originally Posted by Joborule
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.
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The exact same argument could be made for a team finishing 17-20+ every year.
"How the heck are they suppose to sign free agents, since the player would actually want to play there?" Players seem to either want to go to a contender, or a team that is at the bottom of the standings where they feel they have a chance to play (Schultz). Being stuck in the middle is tough unless you are playing in Manhattan.
"How the heck are they suppose to trade for impact players?" Even worse, you have a team with limited assets because you aren't getting low enough in the draft to acquire blue-chip prospects. You can always sell off your future picks, but this just further reduces your prospect pool.
"How the hell are they going to get better?" Again, in this scenario, you typically have to get worse to get better, which appears to be the de facto standard when stuck this position.
I am simply conceptualizing an option where ALL teams compete down the stretch. Crazy heretic that I am.