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Originally Posted by Itse
This is extremely simple: just make the first 16 picks random between non-playoff teams.
The league is tight, there really isn't some massive difference between the teams in the bottom half of the league, and if you eliminated tanking, the differences would be much, much smaller.
The current system is the worst they could have come up with. It heavily encourages tanking, without actually guaranteeing the bad teams get "help". It's a system only people who don't understand math or games could think is good, and the fact that the NHL uses it tells me the league is not run by smart people.
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I have favored more complicated systems that reward winning down the stretch like MC has proposed. There have been several thought through proposals around something like that made. I can't recall the names of them but they are out there.
But I don't see that ever happening.
So I'm actually in agreement that randomizing the bottom 16 makes a lot of sense.
I hate tanking and that teams are rewarded for it. It's one of the worst things about sports now.