Not sure why you guys are using top 3 at a metric. Plain and simple you need high end players to win and the easiest way to obtain them is higher in the draft. That can't be your only method of acquiring talent but it most certainly should be one way because it is the most probable way to find good talent and even more probable to find elite talent.
Of course you need good drafting beyond the first round combined with good trades and signings. It all matters. But expecting to build an elite team without using the most efficient and probable way to obtain elite players seems hopeful.
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