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I don't think we will ever have a live draft where teams can actively change their draft order. At best we will have a live replay, like we do with games. And my system could be used with a live replay as easily as the current system.

This is how the current draft works. The teams line up in a queue, with their draft lists. The first team makes their pick, and the other teams cross it off their list. The next team goes ahead and picks the top remaining player, and so on. The team that drafts last may have there eye on their 1st choice all through the round, as their lower choices are picked by other teams. And then the 2nd to last team has their turn, and they pick their 7th choice, who just happens to be the 1st choice of the next team.

A draft lottery would scramble it a bit, but would still mean the last teams are stuck with what ever is left.

But my system is like everyone goes over to their 1st pick. If a team wants a given player more than anyone else, he will go with that team. If multiple teams want a player about the same, he will go with the weaker team where he can make more of an impact.

Imagine if you were the agent for a player, and you were talking to a scout about your client. He makes a whinnying sound, and then a sound like a buzz saw. You ask him what the sounds are, and he says something about a horsemeat factory. You suddenly realize that he is giving you his evaluation of your player. Would you want that team drafting him, or a team that had rated him higher?

So my system is a bit more like a FA system, but without cash involved. I think you may be able to give more information about players in such a system.

Another possible system would be more like the TL, except you would be spending something other than cash, so that lower ranked teams could be given more of this resource to offer to the young FA. So imagine if you went to this new TL, but instead of searching, you would be shown the players you had scouted. You could then no more about them, but might be bidding against other teams in your country who had scouted him. You could allocate your bidding resources accordingly.

yeah and if you drafted unpopular first picks you get easily 3 5* draftees, and other maybe just one and a lot of crap.

And i think it to much confusing the system, because you can't see why you just get your pick number 10.

Sure you could see why you got your #10 pick..

Imagine this visualization. On "draft day", the names of the players that you have ranked are revealed, so that you know that you have Joe Smith as your top rated player instead of Player No. 11.

Each team would have an avatar, and these would slide over by the picture of their #1 pick. If this was a unique matchup, the player would return with a smiling avatar to join his new team. The players would also be crossed off your draft list.

If there were multiple teams that had selected a player, there would be a drawing to decide which team would get the player, and the succesful team would take their pick back to their team. The other avatars would slide back to their team, with a disappointed expression.

Those who didn't get their first pick would slide over to their next pick, and the process would repeat, and so on.

but it is somekind of irritating when you have to look on 16 teams to see why who get to this team. And if geton high pick numbers you are the last for every good decision

I like the lottery idea...but would it be like the NBA and include only the non-playoff teams or all teams?

Steve

I think it should include all teams. Maybe have the lottery style for the non-playoff teams and then the playoff teams would be ranked by how they finished the season(or playoffs?).

I think it should include all teams. Maybe have the lottery style for the non-playoff teams and then the playoff teams would be ranked by how they finished the season(or playoffs?).

That would be the NBA. That being said. I would LOVE to install that system here. And no whining threads allowed.

how about setting the draft order in 2nd round as the opposite of 1st round. best team of the league gets picks 16 and 17, meanwhile worst team gets 1st and 32nd pick. that would still be favorable for losing teams but keeps things much more fair for everyone.

The fact is there already is a lottery. That is choosing the players. Unlike in real life where everyone knows John Wall or Blake Griffon will be the top pick and is a certain star (Well almost certain - sorry Greg Oden) in BB often the top pick can be a total dud and the best player is USUALLY picked outside the top half a dozen picks. The "word on the street" instituted this season was supposed to help but it is so innaccurate as to be almost worthless, guys your scout thought were one ball turn out to be 5 balls.

I think the system should help the lower teams more than it does now and introducing a lottery obviously reduces the worst teams chances of geting the first pick. The draft is the one way those bottom teams can get better, we should keep the system the way it is and not make things even worse for them.

If anyone follows the NFL things work even better there and the draft ensures that teams that are on the bottom can move up fairly easily.