The proposal that I really, really like is the one from the NBA, the draft
"wheel".
Not actually a wheel that one spins, but called a wheel because a team's pattern of picks repeats every 30 (or however many number of teams there are in the league) years:
The pattern is the same for every team, but each team starts in a different place in the wheel. From the article:
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The team that gets the no. 1 pick in the very first year of this proposed system would draft in the following slots over the system’s first six seasons: 1st, 30th, 19th, 18th, 7th, 6th. Just follow the wheel around clockwise to see the entire 30-year pick cycle of each team, depending on their starting spoke in Year 1.
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Let's say we started this system this year, basing each team's first pick on their finishing position this year, and we finished 3rd-worst, our first 6 picks under the system would be 3, 28, 21, 16, 9, 4.