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Originally Posted by flylock shox
I'm starting to think they should televise a ping-pong ball draft for all non-playoff teams each year, making it a pretty good TV spectacle much like the first round of the draft itself.
The 14th-last team gets 14 balls in the pot; the 13th last gets 13 balls; and so on down to the last place team which gets only 1 ball in the pot.
The first team to have a ball sucked up by that vaccuumy thingy drafts 14th, the second drafts 13th, and so on. The last team to have a ball sucked up drafts 1st overall.
What would otherwise be a quick 5 minute event lasts an hour because of all the extra balls remaining from teams that have already been chosen getting in the way ("Argh, Winnipeg again!).
It could make great afternoon TV drinking stupidity with all sorts of shifting stats for talking heads to prattle on about.
Also lots of chances to use in conjunction the words "balls", "sucked", and "vaccuumy-thingy."
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I've talked about something like this before. The Example of the system I have proposed before is.
30th = 1 Ball
29th = 2 Balls
28th = 4 Balls
27th = 8 Balls
26th = 16 Balls
25th = 20 Balls
24th = 20 Balls
23rd = 30 Balls
22nd = 30 Balls
21st = 40 Balls
20th = 40 Balls
19th = 50 Balls
18th = 50 Balls
17th = 60 Balls
You would need 13 sets of Balls for every team, so 4823 balls in total, in 182 different bags.
First draw is for 14th overall.
Dump all the balls out of the hopper.
While you are interviewing the GM of the team that just got stuck with with 14th overall, have 13 girls wearing team t-shirts that are too tight & yoga pants with Tim Hortons printed on their butts, dump a fresh set off balls for the 13 remaining teams into the hopper and spin it.
Then draw for 13th overall and repeat......
Could make the numbers of balls/ team whatever you want to adjust the odds, but I think the show would be better than what they do now.