76ers: PhD Student's Brilliant Idea to End NBA Tanking

[DMC]

The simplest way is everyone has equal shot at top-5 pick, five teams pulled, then win% decides 6-14, playoffs decide 15-30.

It doesn't reward tanking, doesn't hurt compe ive teams. If you're the worst team, your guaranteed a top-6 selection. Don't like that, spend more money on scouts, managers, players, coaches. It forces orgs to be compe ive in all aspects since draft selection isn't tied solely to losses. It also adds balance to imbalanced conferences.

Conferences are imbalanced because free agents want to play out West. Look at Boston and NY right now. Two premier basketball cities... vacant basically. Miami, vacant because James went back to Cleveland. Chicago has Gasol.

Then you have Lillard, Duncan, M Gasol, Aldridge, Howard, Durant, Westbrook, Parker, Manu, Harden, Curry, Thompson, Paul, Griffin, Cousins, Leonard, Dirk, Davis, and yeah Kobe.. all in the West. Look at how many of those guys were drafted by Western teams. What's wrong with the East coast scouts who think Bennett is a good 1st overall, or a team that picks a crippled person with the 3rd pick? Or a team that trades away a 1st overall pick for Kevin Love?

It's not just about the 1st pick. It's about having the sense to make it mean something.

[K...]

Alright let's go full nerd here and suggest, not a lottery but an auction!

Use the reverse rankings to distribute credits. Teams then go around picking a draft eligible prospect and then set the minimum bid. Starting with champion on down each team has one chance to bid. The team who original set prospect price can match any outbid offer.

This makes the draft more difficult to game. On paper a bad team should get more draft talent, buy only if the can value talent smartly.

No more bad first round picks, just bad team bidding. Presumably the worst team would get a consensus number one since they'd have the most credits, except any team could trade their credits to any other.

[DMC]

Alright let's go full nerd here and suggest, not a lottery but an auction!

Use the reverse rankings to distribute credits. Teams then go around picking a draft eligible prospect and then set the minimum bid. Starting with champion on down each team has one chance to bid. The team who original set prospect price can match any outbid offer.

This makes the draft more difficult to game. On paper a bad team should get more draft talent, buy only if the can value talent smartly.

No more bad first round picks, just bad team bidding. Presumably the worst team would get a consensus number one since they'd have the most credits, except any team could trade their credits to any other.

What about when the teams have used all their credits, what happens to the rest of the draft class?

[K...]

Well, there would at least be one player for every team (who didn't trade out) the draft can just end when all teams exhaust credit. So yeah, theoretically you could have a short draft if there is a highly concentrated talent among a few players, a longer draft if there's no standout.

[K...]

Also, spurs raider, plz call me brilliant too

[DMC]

Well, there would at least be one player for every team (who didn't trade out) the draft can just end when all teams exhaust credit. So yeah, theoretically you could have a short draft if there is a highly concentrated talent among a few players, a longer draft if there's no standout.

A current student-athlete loses amateur status in a particular sport by asking to be placed on the draft list or supplemental draft list of a professional league in that sport. Amateur status is lost even if the athlete’s name is withdrawn from the draft list before the actual draft, the athlete is not drafted, or the athlete is drafted but does not sign an agreement with a professional team.

http://www.ncaa.org/remaining-eligible-professional-draft-inquiries

[K...]

Tough luck. There's still free agency and d league draft assignments. The amount of nba talent coming from colleges varies year to year. Why should the nba care if second round or late lottery kids leave school too early and have to improve their game?

It's the ncaa with the stupid rule, not the nba. I'd abolish the ncaa and turn 17+ kids pro and salaried if I had my say.

I also want D league salary increased to be a fair minor league.

Right now the Philly model is the only model of rebuilding for a team without assets. I think the auction model would allow teams to either target specific young players or trade out.

Want more fun? Let teams carry their credits forward year to year.

[DMC]

Tough luck. There's still free agency and d league draft assignments. The amount of nba talent coming from colleges varies year to year. Why should the nba care if second round or late lottery kids leave school too early and have to improve their game?

It's the ncaa with the stupid rule, not the nba. I'd abolish the ncaa and turn 17+ kids pro and salaried if I had my say.

I also want D league salary increased to be a fair minor league.

Right now the Philly model is the only model of rebuilding for a team without assets. I think the auction model would allow teams to either target specific young players or trade out.

Want more fun? Let teams carry their credits forward year to year.

So you're the Ron Paul of NBA reform.. basically ideas that will never come to fruition because you have big eyes and zero wallet. The NBA doesn't want to can their entire system and the NCAA isn't going anywhere.

[K...]

Yeah like I said, I'm only posting for spurs raider's e-respect. I'm not a PhD, but gosh darn I'm a winner

[DMC]

Yeah like I said, I'm only posting for spurs raider's e-respect. I'm not a PhD, but gosh darn I'm a winner

Not with that avatar.

[sprrs]

Tough luck. There's still free agency and d league draft assignments. The amount of nba talent coming from colleges varies year to year. Why should the nba care if second round or late lottery kids leave school too early and have to improve their game?

It's the ncaa with the stupid rule, not the nba. I'd abolish the ncaa and turn 17+ kids pro and salaried if I had my say.

I also want D league salary increased to be a fair minor league.

Right now the Philly model is the only model of rebuilding for a team without assets. I think the auction model would allow teams to either target specific young players or trade out.

Want more fun? Let teams carry their credits forward year to year.

While we agree this is something that would never come to fruition, it could potentially improve the quality of rookies by scaring them into staying in college to work on their game and have a better chance of being drafted in subsequent years. That would only be a good thing.