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Re: And the #1 pick goes to...
« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2014, 01:58:12 PM »

Offline manl_lui

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If the goal is to discourage teams from tanking, the solution would be to award the lottery odds in reverse order.  That way, the lottery team with the best record gets the best odds of the #1 pick, the lottery team with the worst record gets the worst odds. 

That doesn't solve the problem of teams that are truly bad having a hard time getting better, but it really improves the competitiveness of the games during the season.  It also is likely to give a good player to a team that is on the cusp of making the playoffs, so a team no longer has to worry about getting stuck on the mediocrity treadmill.

I kinda like that, but what is stopping the 8th and 9th seed from tanking a few games just to get in position for the best record as a crappy team?

Re: And the #1 pick goes to...
« Reply #31 on: February 12, 2014, 02:04:32 PM »

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If the goal is to discourage teams from tanking, the solution would be to award the lottery odds in reverse order.  That way, the lottery team with the best record gets the best odds of the #1 pick, the lottery team with the worst record gets the worst odds. 

That doesn't solve the problem of teams that are truly bad having a hard time getting better, but it really improves the competitiveness of the games during the season.  It also is likely to give a good player to a team that is on the cusp of making the playoffs, so a team no longer has to worry about getting stuck on the mediocrity treadmill.

I kinda like that, but what is stopping the 8th and 9th seed from tanking a few games just to get in position for the best record as a crappy team?
Nothing, every playoff bubble team would tank towards the end of the season.

That'd be a worse farce as it'd turn playoff "races" into tank fests to avoid the bottom seeds most years.

Re: And the #1 pick goes to...
« Reply #32 on: February 12, 2014, 03:30:42 PM »

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If the goal is to discourage teams from tanking, the solution would be to award the lottery odds in reverse order.  That way, the lottery team with the best record gets the best odds of the #1 pick, the lottery team with the worst record gets the worst odds. 

That doesn't solve the problem of teams that are truly bad having a hard time getting better, but it really improves the competitiveness of the games during the season.  It also is likely to give a good player to a team that is on the cusp of making the playoffs, so a team no longer has to worry about getting stuck on the mediocrity treadmill.

I kinda like that, but what is stopping the 8th and 9th seed from tanking a few games just to get in position for the best record as a crappy team?
Nothing, every playoff bubble team would tank towards the end of the season.

That'd be a worse farce as it'd turn playoff "races" into tank fests to avoid the bottom seeds most years.

I'm not sure it would be worse.  If anything, it limits the "tanking season" to the end of the year, rather than having an all-out race to the bottom all year long.  So the odds of seeing watchable, competitive games goes up. 

It also increases the odds that well-managed teams with average talent will get good players instead of regularly giving the most talented players to badly run teams.

Alternatively, make the lottery teams play a single-elimination tournament to see who gets the #1 pick. 

All the systems are flawed, the question is which system is most likely to generate the most watchable product.
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