I understand that this was decided 2 years ago, but I don't get why it wasn't put into the rules or explained to the GMs. If this was decided two years ago, it shouldn't be such a surprise.

I don't want to make PPG take on more work, but he is already verifying draft positions when he is adding the players to our rosters. Ever player taken in a supp draft has their real life draft position listed if they were drafted or it says UNDRAFTED. So it does not seem like an extra step to me. I could be wrong, but if so, I am willing to volunteer to do the extra admin work.

I agree that it does benefit all the owners, but all the owners aren't aware this was the rule. Many were under the assumption that all MiLR players were subject to the same ELC values whether they were entry level or supplemental players. And actually, I think it is giving some teams a special advantage. The point of higher salaries for higher drafted players is that they are usually better players who score higher and should be paid more money. If not, then why do we have ELC values at all? All prospects should be eligible for the league minimum.

With this ruling, during year's supplemental draft, the entire second round could be teams dropping whoever they drafted first in the previous year's entry draft and then selecting them again in the supplemental. This creates tons of more admin work for PPG. because he would have to process all the drops and then edit the players as supplemental picks. It also means that Jack Hughes, Kaapo Kakko, Bowen Byram, and all the other top 2019 entry draft players will be signing to league minimum contracts instead of the $3m or $2.5m a year that they should be making. At that point, why should we even have ELC values?

It also creates an incentive for all teams to keep their Supplemental draft picks instead of trading them. Why would you trade a supplemental draft pick when you can save $2m in cap space on your top prospect? That will eliminate some of the excitement and activity that the supplemental draft has created.

Because many GMs will be incentivized to use their supplemental picks on highly rated, already drafted players, it also eliminates the excitement of the prospect research and efforts for GMs to find diamonds in the rough during the supplemental draft. Players I'm after keep getting taken by other GMs, and I'm sure that I'm taking people that other teams want. That is part of the fun. But instead, what is likely to happen is that many teams will simply redraft players already in their system.