…regardless it incentivizes building a team to viability in order to get the best draft assets. And sure there will inevitably be some f*ckery at the end of the season but I’m fairly certain this would retain parity and eliminate tanking
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…perhaps combine with forced sales of team spending more than 5 years in a row in bottom 2 spots…
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…SO move the best odds! What if the best odds was actually a spot or two outside of the play-in. And that all teams are involved in the lottery but the “bad teams that are trying hardest” actually have the best odds of rewards and it goes down from there in both directions…
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…principle is simple, players (in this case organizations) will always look to exploit the rules to accomplish their goals and the current lottery actively *incentivizes* tanking because that’s where to best odds are…
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@howardbeck.bsky.social hey this is very far outside my professional wheelhouse but I really want to plant a seed of draft reform that I genuinely think has legs…
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Okay, by Autre Ne Veut
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My new karaoke banger. Can’t help but imagining a videoclip with a crazy-frog-like-creature doing a sick ass choreo during the hook. AYE LET’S GO. autreneveut.bandcamp.com/track/okay
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Love, Guess Who?? out now: autreneveut.bandcamp.com/album/love-g...
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I made this painting of my friends’ baby
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Years after seeing the Woman in the Dunes—being struck by its beauty and intimacy—I’m reading the book and I literally feel like I’m
drowning in sand. This is perhaps my worst fear, but I can’t stop.
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