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Originally Posted by ComixZone
The problem with this is the parity in the NHL.
Instead of being on an individual team’s elimination date (because some teams go to the final day), there should be a flag in the calendar that coincides with the trade deadline.
Draft order determined from the points % after the TDL. If you make the playoffs? There ya go, if you miss - then your efforts aren’t lost.
…could end up with some weird rare cases where teams may make strategic choices at the very end to ensure a playoff miss rather than a playoff appearance I suppose, but that seems unlikely in most cases.
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That's a natural sorting feature, not a bug.
Presumably Team #9 is much better than Team number #16. But Team #9 gets ~0-2 points in ~1 game, in the after elimination standings. While Team number 16 gets maybe 8-10 points in 15+ games. Team number 9 deserves the 15th overall pick, not a top 5 pick. The hitch is team 12 in the middle who has 7 or 8 games, has the opportunity to go on a stellar run and grab 1OA, and team #16 can't just throw all of their current assets away because they need to win a couple and hold that off.
Also this is why I like the retroactive view of the playoff cut off, looking back and seeing which game exactly the Flames could no longer have reached 92 points, if that's where 8th place lands, because it makes the exact date of the anti-tank unknowable so teams have to start competing for it earlier, and so that there are more games overal in the 1OA race.