Draft Lottery

[jmtrops]

trading all you good players for picks and prospects is the only tanking I have seen so I don't think a lottery is needed and if we put one in place I might have to leave the league.

[snugerud]

trading all you good players for picks and prospects is the only tanking I have seen so I don't think a lottery is needed and if we put one in place I might have to leave the league.

Sorry guys,  I wasn't trying to suggest anyone has or is intentionally tanking their team.

 It was something that came up in the league I run and thought it would be proactive to bring it up as a potential rule bend that might happen down the road in this league (intentional or unintentional)  or in the case that we are dealing with , you have 2 good teams that otherwise would have finished in the mid rankings but the owners of those teams got busy with life. yada yada yada.  Lines have been intermittently set.  It hasn't been bad enough that we are saying get rid of the owners since both have been good GMs up to this point but as a league we thought it wasn't necessarily fair to the other teams that probably need the higher picks but had better records due to consistently always having all available players playing.  (ours is a very valuable draft, no minors signings,minors are 25 or younger, 80games or less whichever comes first, only 4 picks per team and you can freely move your minors in and out of your lineup) so what was happening was say consistently 2-3 days per week the lines weren't set (missing out on 3-5 player starts per week) Doesn't sound like much but we didn't want to reward inactivity. 

[Rob]

For me, if I was going to support a rule change like this it would be solely for the fun of it.  A lottery would make for an interesting wrinkle in the league.  I don't think it would change the way teams rebuild in the least here.  It's just not an issue.  If you stop starting your active players - I warn you.  If you keep doing it - I replace you. 

Then again - we already have some randomness to our entry draft process with the keeper draft.  I mean... Snuggy got Mackinnon when his team was a front runner.  Two thirds of the first round entry draftees are gone before the supplemental even begins!  For this reason we might want to make sure the worst teams get the best picks. 

[norrya66]

For me, if I was going to support a rule change like this it would be solely for the fun of it.  A lottery would make for an interesting wrinkle in the league.  I don't think it would change the way teams rebuild in the least here.  It's just not an issue.  If you stop starting your active players - I warn you.  If you keep doing it - I replace you. 

Then again - we already have some randomness to our entry draft process with the keeper draft.  I mean... Snuggy got Mackinnon when his team was a front runner.  Two thirds of the first round entry draftees are gone before the supplemental even begins!  For this reason we might want to make sure the worst teams get the best picks.

Completely agree with Rob here.  If I were to vote yes to the lottery, it would be strictly on a curiosity factor to add another wrinkle to the league.  I'm just not sure we need it.  Great Idea, I'm just not sure we need it with this group of GM's and with the Commish that we have.

[GypsieDeathBringer]

I'm normally all for adding more rules to create nuance to the league, but I agree with Rob's last assessment that our draft is important and it is especially important that the teams with the lowest record get the highest pick since much of the talent gets siphoned out with our keepers.  So, in this instance I would vote to keep it the way we have it.   

[izaman3]

I'm normally all for adding more rules to create nuance to the league, but I agree with Rob's last assessment that our draft is important and it is especially important that the teams with the lowest record get the highest pick since much of the talent gets siphoned out with our keepers.  So, in this instance I would vote to keep it the way we have it.

 

[jlapo11]

 I would vote to keep it the way we have it.

I like the fact that we have two types of Drafts (NHL Draft and Suppl Draft). This way the tanking has only half chance to be successfull and the team with the lowest record still has a good chance to get a very good pick from a contracted teams.