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Originally Posted by GGG
Can this draft ever end?
The points never get spent accept when buying a player from the NHL. So you spend 1 point on a player and you want to get him stolen for more so you can rack up picks to go after the number 1 pick. The strategy would be to be to accumulate the most points and then fill your draft slots with your actual targets. This becomes very clunky and I’m not sure if you ever actually run out of points.
I like the concept though. I would adjust it to either an auction or a blind bid. Same point system as you describe but teams nominate a player to be auctioned and then teams bid on the player and the high bid takes the player.
Do you spend all your points to get a top prospect or is 7 20 pointers better after people blue entire drafts in the top 5 picks.
Or a blind bid for each player with your points and the high bid taking it. The you have all kinds of game theory for how to maximize your point usage.
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I did some quick math. Yes the draft must eventually end.
In total there are 3729 points in play, and initially 224 draft slots. If each team gets each player for only one point, That leaves 3505 points to make more slots and draft more players. Assuming GMs have taken traded points among them to avoid any remainders above a mutliple of 11 (the cost of a new slot plus 1 point tondraft a player) an additional 318 players.xouks be drafted. With 7 points left over.
As for stealing loops, since the cost to steal goes up by at least one with every steal and there is a finite amount of points, eventually stealing becomes impossible. That could take awhile though.
If the first player were draft for one point, and stolen the maximum number if times, he could be stolen 3504 times. If I have this right, the second player could only be stolen 3503 times since one point is eliminates when he is selected. Thies player, 3502, and so on.
But that depends on GMs wanting to steal every time, and only for the minimum points. Frankly, if they do that, they deserve to suffer.