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Originally Posted by Wolven
No, he's right. The draft idea is ######ed and it has been discussed here before. All it does is encourage tanking until you are eliminated from the playoffs and then encourage all out winning. Teams that should be fighting for the 8th playoff spot would then be motivated to do a tank job earlier in the season to get eliminated and then win their way to a 1st overall pick.
Teams that can win games do not need the #1 draft pick as much as teams that cannot win games. The whole point of the draft system is to spread out the talent and help losing teams become winners. If this system were to kick in, it would leave truly bad teams in the basement for longer periods of time.
I think people are overly sensitive right now to teams tanking the season because the recent shortened season with a big draft attached to it caused some exceptional tanking. In a normal season I doubt that would happen to the same degree.
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I think people are also vastly overestimating how many games there are after teams get eliminated. In 11-12 Montreal finished 28th in the league, yet it took until game 76 for them to get eliminated from the playoffs. Huge draft order decisions would be based on a team's performance over a 4-5 game sample rather than an 82 game one. Just an awful idea.