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would that reduce tanking, though? now if you're the 4th worst team, you have an incentive to lose to get into the lottery, and the bottom 3 teams have an incentive to keep losing to stay in the bottom 3.IMO a modest lottery -- say, equal chances for the bottom 3 teams -- could basically do no harm, and would likely do some good.
Yes, tanking is rare. But that's just because a draft with a QB who is projected as a sure-thing #1 pick from the start of the season is rare. When such a guy is out there, tanking does happen and I don't want to encourage it, or reward a team that does it.
(And yep, despite the Colts' failure to capitalize, Andrew Luck was a real reward. Would you rather have RGIII as your quarterback?)
would that reduce tanking, though? now if you're the 4th worst team, you have an incentive to lose to get into the lottery, and the bottom 3 teams have an incentive to keep losing to stay in the bottom 3.
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Vegas is going to have to give a lot of 20 point spreads to equal out the number of people willing to take the Jete to make the money come out even. That puts the pressure on the casinos more than the bettors.
https://www.si.com/nfl/photos/2013/.../2013/10/14/biggest-point-spreads-nfl-history
Exactly. A team goes into Week 17 knowing a win locks them in as the 4th overall pick and a loss gives them a chance at #1. Why try to win?
really, you might as well say that any team that doesn't make the playoffs has a shot at the #1 pick. a team on the verge of making the playoffs won't try to tank for a small chance at the #1 pick.Stretch the lottery to 5 or 6 top teams. A #6 pick team is what, a 5-11 team? That team might be willing to try to be a 6-10 or 7-9 team in order to build something for the next year. Building a winning culture is everything in the NFL, too bad these sucker teams don't have a clue what is like to have that in your organization.
But yeah, you can't cover all the bases, it's the short blanket dilemma.
I would be fine with that.really, you might as well say that any team that doesn't make the playoffs has a shot at the #1 pick. a team on the verge of making the playoffs won't try to tank for a small chance at the #1 pick.
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I would be fine with that.
As I said earlier, imagine how much interest you would add to the draft if the first 20 picks were in a lottery and the lottery was drawn on the clock at the draft.
Just have a lottery of the bottom 5 teams for the first 5 picks. Would stop a suck for luck campaign
Link:
NFL could stop tanking with a draft lottery
There's a lot of laughably awful things the NFL could do to kill their product and this would be right up near the top.
Also ask the Colts how tanking for Luck worked out.
The Colts getting the #1 pick the year Luck was available is really the only good example of possible tanking in the past several decades, and an argument can be made that certain roster and game day decisions they made in 2011 weren't those of a team trying to lose every game.
And as it is, Luck has had a solid, injury filled career and the Colts have missed the playoffs 2 years in a row. How is this a huge problem for the league?
I so hope you're right about the Green Beans tanking because everyone KNOWS that if they get the No. 1 pick they'll screw it up, either by picking the wrong guy or wrecking whoever becomes the franchise's (I use that term loosely) designated "savior."Great idea. It should start in 2019.
I so hope you're right about the Green Beans tanking because everyone KNOWS that if they get the No. 1 pick they'll screw it up, either by picking the wrong guy or wrecking whoever becomes the franchise's (I use that term loosely) designated "savior."