[WickerChicken]

Some great recommendations in this thread. I’m a fan of any solution that promotes competitive balance, and protects the integrity of the game.

The current draft model undermines both. By rewarding lower finishes with higher picks, it creates a built-in incentive to lose. We call it “tanking,” but structurally it’s just teams responding rationally to the system. That puts the burden of maintaining game integrity on individual organizations — even when losing may be in their long-term best interest.

No team should be put in a position where doing what’s best for their future means compromising the quality of the game in the present. A better system would reduce or eliminate the incentive to lose while still giving teams that have not had success, a path to improve.