(continuing...)
Suggestion #3, however, I like. This has been suggested in the past and I’ve always sort of like the idea that older players might possibly be better than younger players. Sort of like how that extra year at college, or working for the Peace Corps, or whatever experience in life does to help other skills, could make the older draft picks more desirable. But I will now temper my enthusiasm… In today’s world of kids entering a draft, it’s typically the younger ones that are seen as having the most long-term potential and possibly the best skills (otherwise they wouldn’t enter the draft so young and feel like they can skip getting more experience in college or other lower leagues first). In fact, I’d say that the best NBA rookies most seasons tend to be the youngest players, so I don’t know why we would think that older players should have better skills. If anything, I’d think that if we’re going to alter the skills of draftees by age based on real life, then perhaps we should see the 18-year-olds with generally better skills than the 19-year-olds, but with a slight bump in Experience for 19-year-olds. But looking back at this from the perspective of BB, the difference between an 18 and 19-year-old when it comes to training is that the younger players get an entire extra year of training before training speed declines, which means a much better chance at reaching their potential than the older draftees, so the value of the younger players is greater and maybe if the older players could come with a “year of pre-training”, then that would make the older players at least as valuable as the younger players. Ultimately, I think the question really comes down to whether or not there are enough quality value players in the draft already, not whether or not we should recalibrate the value of the older players, so in the end I guess I’m thinking that there should either be “real life adjustment” as I suggest above (better 18-year-olds, experience for 19-year-olds), or just leave things the way they are since it’s actually not so bad. (And I remember back when the draft was not so good and we’d have intense “change the draft” suggestion posts at least few times every season.)
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