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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2346855, member: 966"] The draft is like Gun Control. It's never going to be perfect, and it can't prevent every problem, but it's still effective. Philly 'hasn't improved' because they intentionally selected three players with injuries. They're going to be pretty good this year, no? If everyone has recovered and can play full-ish seasons? The draft is designed both to uplift the poor and to prevent the elite from too easily becoming 'overly' elite. It's a compressor, in audio terms. But, compressors still permit some high and some low levels to pass through. I was just thinking maybe there should be something in the system that disallows any playoff team from drafting in the top 10, for any reason. They can't even trade for those picks. But, then a poor team should be allowed to make that assessment, if they're receiving value (to them) for that high pick... I dunno. The issue of tanking seems to be such a media issue, but as a fan, i really have not cared a single bit when Philly or the Knicks or whoever are losing games at the end of the season. I'm just not watching those games, because the interesting side is the teams struggling to make the playoffs. Keep it as a lottery, with odds, but just reduce the variance between the odds. And figure out a way to make the actual lottery draw something that cannot even appear to be corruptible. The whole show of revealing the teams' pick order just seems like such a sham. Have them do a tournament of Choosies or RockPaperScissorsSpock for it, where the final team record determines how many times you have to win. Seriously, though — some sort of Non-Fixable system for determining draft order, where the audience can see it all happening. Give each team rep the appropriate number of pieces of paper squares, fold them, and put them into a Bingo globe spinner. None of that high(er) tech unweighted pingpong balls in a vacuum BS. [/QUOTE]

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