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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 4410192, member: 297"]
Really stupid idea that solves the wrong problem.

The problem is that right now franchises try to game a lottery on drafts of varying quality, instead of having incentives to develop the best players and team possible.

You want to fix this, give the play-in teams and the next closest team to qualifying for the play-in in each conference the best lottery odds.

Then give the 2 teams with the worst record in the conference a sandwich pick each between the 1st and 2nd round, on order of record finish, with the worst team getting the first sandwich pick, and so on.

This gives incentives to teams to compete that aren't necessarily championship contenders, and grants an additional asset for the truly bad teams to either develop a player or use in trades.

I'd also be in favor of allowing teams that missed the playoffs the option to carry a third 2 way player at the start of the season.

Put it on the franchises to build instead of rely on dice rolls to get a great player through a messed up set of incentives and lotto odds.

TL;DR - reward the right the things and the problems are fixed, no need to talk relegation garbage
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