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Originally Posted by driveway
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:
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. |
But then there is zero help for the poor teams. Everyone averages the same over a 30 year period (and really close after only six years) I think most people want to see the bottom teams get some help, we just want to eliminate (minimize) intentional tanking, and long periods of draft rewards if the team is still bad.