|
Post by Commish (SEA) on Feb 21, 2020 13:42:22 GMT -5
This is an idea I was bouncing around for either a future reboot of the league or potentially even an amendment to this current incarnation of the league down the road...
What if each offseason you are assigned the player who was drafted at that exact slot in real life of the pick(s) you currently own.
Some years obviously the #1 pick would still have the most value, but in most drafts later picks can have huge value.
Here's an outline of my reasoning: - Adds an interesting twist to each offseason especially to that final regular season sim - De-incentivizes teams from overtly tanking year in and year out (even in years where the #1 pick is great, the 2-3 are not always great as well) - Teams that kind of get stuck in that middle road of the 6-8 seeds in the playoffs are sometimes rewarded for their competitive efforts - Second rounders could now take on much greater value - Undrafted rookies would be placed directly into the FA pool and make FA more interesting - Could streamline our offseason with no need to have a delay for the draft and draft lists etc. I could directly go from the Finals to FA.
Just some thoughts, what do you guys think?
EDIT: Obviously some teams have dealt picks for the next 3 drafts and I wouldn't make the change as early as those because of what teams may have given up for those picks unless everyone was on board.
|
|
|
Post by SixersGM on Feb 21, 2020 13:51:22 GMT -5
Would be quite the wrinkle lol. Idk this scares me but would be very interesting.
At the end of the day I’ll be here regardless though
|
|
|
Post by deputy (NOJ) on Feb 21, 2020 13:53:07 GMT -5
I'm in, sounds great. Even if it starts from the upcoming draft. #Hasheem
|
|
|
Post by OrioleMagic (PHI) on Feb 21, 2020 14:03:02 GMT -5
It’s not much of a game then with everything out of the GMs control except lineup and game plan and FA attempts. Just a thought.
|
|
|
Post by SixersGM on Feb 21, 2020 14:08:15 GMT -5
Agree with Lakers, I’d tentatively say I prefer not doing this but it could always be tested in a random year with garbage prospects
It would also make the 2013 draft for example super weird. Giannis was non-lotto so teams could easily position themselves and guarantee landing him
|
|
|
Post by kingdom (BOS) on Feb 21, 2020 14:12:02 GMT -5
Agree with Lakers, I’d tentatively say I prefer not doing this but it could always be tested in a random year with garbage prospects It would also make the 2013 draft for example super weird. Giannis was non-lotto so teams could easily position themselves and guarantee landing him He'd be the 19th pick in VaV, which is a solid playoff team. Rudy Gobert was 27th that season, he'd be a 2nd rounder..so I guess some comfort to a bad team that year lol.
|
|
|
Post by kingdom (BOS) on Feb 21, 2020 14:12:56 GMT -5
Drafts are my favorite aspect of the off-season, so I could not support this. I wouldn't go anywhere but I'd be pretty sad.
|
|
|
Post by SixersGM on Feb 21, 2020 14:13:16 GMT -5
Agree with Lakers, I’d tentatively say I prefer not doing this but it could always be tested in a random year with garbage prospects It would also make the 2013 draft for example super weird. Giannis was non-lotto so teams could easily position themselves and guarantee landing him He'd be the 19th pick in VaV, which is a solid playoff team. Rudy Gobert was 27th that season, he'd be a 2nd rounder..so I guess some comfort to a bad team that year lol.
He was 15 IRL, why 19 here? Idk if I’m missing something
|
|
|
Post by kingdom (BOS) on Feb 21, 2020 14:15:29 GMT -5
He'd be the 19th pick in VaV, which is a solid playoff team. Rudy Gobert was 27th that season, he'd be a 2nd rounder..so I guess some comfort to a bad team that year lol.
He was 15 IRL, why 19 here? Idk if I’m missing something I mathed wrong but still a solid playoff team. Although Gobert still holds true. I was factoring in that we have 4 less teams in VaV.
|
|
|
Post by SixersGM on Feb 21, 2020 14:20:15 GMT -5
He was 15 IRL, why 19 here? Idk if I’m missing something I mathed wrong but still a solid playoff team. Although Gobert still holds true. I was factoring in that we have 4 less teams in VaV. Gotcha. You mathed right on Gobert which is the only one needing math lol.
|
|
|
Post by frozenpotato on Feb 21, 2020 14:22:49 GMT -5
I like how this sounds, in fact if this had existed for the last 10 drafts or so I could have ended up with way better prospects than Nene, zombie Lou Will or Jared Dudley, but like the Cavs my favorite part of the offseason is the draft too, so I'm quite confused at the moment lol
|
|
|
Post by jafx99 (GSW) on Feb 21, 2020 15:31:48 GMT -5
Hmm...definitely an interesting idea but not sure if I like it for the league or not.
I do agree that the practice of tanking (me included) has definitely become commonplace and something like this could curb the incentive to overtly tanking. Thus, making the regular season more interesting for the entire league instead of always having multiple teams take seasons off while they “trust the process.”
|
|
|
Post by theschmaranz (BUF) on Feb 21, 2020 18:36:37 GMT -5
Yeah I'm not diggin this
|
|
|
Post by buckcheeks on Feb 24, 2020 13:28:50 GMT -5
It might not be a perfect idea, but what I do like about it is that it would really improve the competition of the league. We wouldn’t have 20 teams tanking every season like we do now.
The fact that my team is a playoff team right now is really disgusting for the state of the league. Pretty frustrating as well.
|
|
|
Post by Commish (SEA) on Feb 28, 2020 11:50:47 GMT -5
Was playing around with what this idea would've looked like since the 2003 draft. Just food for thought, not trying to beat a dead horse or justify it.. was just curious as to what that might've looked like from draft to draft. Attachments:Redraft.xlsx (19.37 KB)
|
|