02-17-2026, 02:49 PM
(02-14-2026, 08:34 PM)mvossman Wrote: I don't think this is true. You could simply make the entire first round a lottery with flattened odds. It won't reward crappy organizations as much as it used to, but now that the aprons are so punishing (making it much closer to a true salary cap) the smaller franchises don't need as much help. Very little reason to tank in that scenario.
On a separate note, I think the play-in is stupid. Half the league was already making the playoffs.
If you change the goals and mission of what you want to achieve with the draft then yes you could change it and consider your new plan an 'improvement'. Flattened odds basically redefines the entire reason the lottery was created.
The goal was to reward crappy help unfortunate organizations that can end up stuck in the bottom tiers perpetually. This wasn't for 'tankers' but what if organizations just had a bad luck streak, like devastating injuries? Now without great luck in the flattened odds, your team may be terrible forever or at least the foreseeable future.