Also, HH's idea for tanking was kind of interesting. Not sure I fully understand it, but it sounded fun.
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Been chewing on it. A big problem is that your odds of picking a team as bottom-4 bad is probably higher than the current lottery odds.
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I'm not so sure about that. Brooklyn and Portland would have been top 5 picks in the ****** team draft.... Brooklyn may have been #1 (since Wash couldn't pick themselves). Detroit would have also been a lock top 6-7. If teams didn't have direct motivation they might play it more straight. I think we could easily be where porty is record wise if we wanted. No idea if it would separate the benefit of being bad far enough to really reduce motivation... but it wouldn't be as critical to be gross in the games that mattered most.
I also like the potential animosity it would create and you know owners like Ishbia and Gilbert would reach to get the other team as an eff you.
There would still be a lottery... its just that the odds would be based on where the team you picked landed. So say we picked Brooklyn... we'd be sitting at 7.
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I would also want to combine this with limiting the amount of times you can jump into the top 4 to 2 out of 4 years and if you get the 1st pick then for two years you can't jump up. Spreading the luck around and making it more random but giving some benefit to teams that suck.