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I didn't even know they were doing a lottery system now for the baseball draft until yesterday, but that has to be one of the dumbest ideas I've seen. I'm sure there's a lot of Twins fans on the board who loved them moving all the way from 13th to 5th, but to me baseball has always been a sport where the cream always rises to the top and they play enough games to where you know who the teams devoid of talent and money are. I'm an Oakland A's fan and they went from being tied for the best odds in the draft for the top pick, to picking 6th! Its like wtf!? How is it even possible to lose 106 games and end up picking 6th!? Baseball and the way its all ran has to be one of the dumbest sports ever and it has been for a long time.
Draft lotteries suck. I think it's dumb as hell.
Quote: @Vikergirl said:
Draft lotteries suck. I think it's dumb as hell.
They are awful and there has to be a better way of doing it. I don't know why they always include about a dozen teams in these lottery's. Would it not make more sense to just take the worst 3 or 4 teams and just put them into their own lottery? The fact that Oakland can go from the highest odds of getting the top selection, to picking 6th while a team picking 13th jumps ahead of them shouldn't even be a possibility. Once again...baseball has gotten it wrong
It should always be by record, I don't care what anyone else says.
Lottery systems do not prevent teams from tanking, if a team is out of it, they can still improve their odds by losing. All it does is negate what the purpose of the draft is which is to even the competitive balance. Like they say, common sense is not so common!
Don't worry, I am sure it will be conducted with the same honesty and integrity as the NBA lottery.
BTW, as long as we are talking about MLB, how about we talk about the NFL needing full time officials to help ensure that the NFL has better officiating.... ok, maybe a bad example?
There's talk that the NFL could be going to a lottery system soon.
Former Saints head coach Sean Payton believes the NFL Draft could be undergoing a major change in the near future.
During an interview with Colin Cowherd this week, Payton predicted the draft will eventually move to a lottery system where the worst team in the NFL wouldn't necessarily end up with the No. 1 overall pick.
"At some point, we're going to move to a lottery system in the NFL," Payton said.
The subject of the draft came up when Payton was asked about USC quarterback Caleb Williams, who he views as a "generational" player. With Williams being such an impressive prospect, Payton could envision a situation where teams try to tank for him when he becomes eligible for the draft in 2024, but a lottery would prevent that.....
More here: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sean-...ar-future/
Not good news, draft lotteries suck. Wonder if the lottery would include all non-playoff teams.
Definitely not a fan of this...obviously.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
There's talk that the NFL could be going to a lottery system soon.
Former Saints head coach Sean Payton believes the NFL Draft could be undergoing a major change in the near future.
During an interview with Colin Cowherd this week, Payton predicted the draft will eventually move to a lottery system where the worst team in the NFL wouldn't necessarily end up with the No. 1 overall pick.
"At some point, we're going to move to a lottery system in the NFL," Payton said.
The subject of the draft came up when Payton was asked about USC quarterback Caleb Williams, who he views as a "generational" player. With Williams being such an impressive prospect, Payton could envision a situation where teams try to tank for him when he becomes eligible for the draft in 2024, but a lottery would prevent that.....
More here: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sean-...ar-future/
Just awful. I would hate to see that in the NFL.
There has to be some type of checks and balances system to prevent teams from tanking. Again I go back to just taking the top 4 teams and putting them into their own draft lottery. I'm not sure what else you can really do. I just think allowing a team with (for example) the 7th or 8th best odds the opportunity to win the top pick is completely unnecessary.
Quote: @supafreak84 said:
@ MaroonBells said:
There's talk that the NFL could be going to a lottery system soon.
Former Saints head coach Sean Payton believes the NFL Draft could be undergoing a major change in the near future.
During an interview with Colin Cowherd this week, Payton predicted the draft will eventually move to a lottery system where the worst team in the NFL wouldn't necessarily end up with the No. 1 overall pick.
"At some point, we're going to move to a lottery system in the NFL," Payton said.
The subject of the draft came up when Payton was asked about USC quarterback Caleb Williams, who he views as a "generational" player. With Williams being such an impressive prospect, Payton could envision a situation where teams try to tank for him when he becomes eligible for the draft in 2024, but a lottery would prevent that.....
More here: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sean-...ar-future/
Just awful. I would hate to see that in the NFL.
There has to be some type of checks and balances system to prevent teams from tanking. Again I go back to just taking the top 4 teams and putting them into their own draft lottery. I'm not sure what else you can really do. I just think allowing a team with (for example) the 7th or 8th best odds the opportunity to win the top pick is completely unnecessary.
still isnt going to stop teams from tanking, in your scenario, you are sitting in the 5th draft spot, just outside the lottery, definitely no playoffs in your future, you know there are teams that are going to double down on suck to try and get into one of those top 4 spots, if anything this would encourage more tanking since you could be sitting 9th or 10th but only 2 games out of a top 4 spot, but 5 games out of the #1 spot... you would likely be more incentivized to say fuck it and go for that lottery ticket.
I am not sure what the answer is, maybe a nuclear type penalty for any teams found to have intentionally tanked for draft position? but I dont like the lottery systems at all, entirely to much room for outside influences in how the final draft positions get established and very few are based on the actual need of the teams in consideration.
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