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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Simple question: do you think a league with no draft would have more parity or less parity than a league with a draft?
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With the proper measures in place, getting rid of the draft could help. It all depends on what replaces it. There would still need to be a system that promotes talent distribution. It's just that IMO, the draft has never been able to do that in a fair way.
It's a little bit better now that the odds have been changed. The way I look at it, the salary cap and 27yo UFA age has done more to create parity than the draft ever did and now that parity has been established, there is no point to having a draft so heavily in favour of bad teams. The difference between a playoff team and a non-playoff team is not as great as it used to be, but the talent drop off after the top 5 or 10 is relatively more drastic in an average draft year.