Solving For Tanking, We're smart, let's figure it out
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Thee Jazz Fan
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What if you were only eligible to draft in the top 5 one out of every three years with that make a big difference or no?
That might be outlandish though
That might be outlandish though
I think the lottery protected picks have the potential to be the most visible tanking fiascos, just like the Dallas tanking job two years ago. Teams not wanting to win a play in game have to be the very worst case scenario for the league.
It would help the number of tanking teams for sure, but doesn't solve it all together.
It would just be rough to land top 5 in a bad draft and then not be able to draft high again for another 3 years.
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Two parties need to be incentivized 1) players 2) owners/teams and you can do that by either providing more money or a competitive advantage. More money is simple and I think a lot can be done there. Competitive advantages could be CBA related and could be advantages that allow teams to spend money for freely.
I have a lot of thoughts on how to apply this, but at high level you can simply provide more of those incentives for players teams who finish higher. They could also tie these incentives to the NBA cup which is an idea I think the NBA should expand on greatly. My ideal world would be some in season tournament that would require qualification the previous year, but you can also do this with divisions. The NBA cup games as they are now are much more competitive than your normal Tuesday night NBA game. Increasing the incentive and frequency of games that mean more would mean more competitive basketball games throughout the season and more reward for actually winning them.
My ideal model would be something similar to how they have it in European Sports. Your placing in the league one year determines what tier of "cup" competition you play the following year. We will never have relegation in the NBA, but we could say 3 tiers of teams and then those teams compete with each other for incentives. I like this idea because it would mean that the bottom teams have something to play for and win when they play against other bottom teams.
KOC predicted that there would be some changes this off-season regarding the rules for tanking due to the new TV deals happening
I think you should make point differential part of what gives you lottery odds. No idea what the calculus would be for that.
Wouldn't absolutely solve tanking, but it would give incentive to teams not to be pathetic while tanking.
Wouldn't absolutely solve tanking, but it would give incentive to teams not to be pathetic while tanking.
Park Bites
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View: https://youtu.be/FdNd69dx5gg?si=cWMmTOBB7XgUP4VH
He brought up the idea of a lottery tournament. How it works
Worst record gets home court
Single elimination
Winner advances
Winner of the tournament gets pick #1 Loser #2
Loser of the se.i finals plays for #3 and #4
then treams remain where they finished record wise.
Nba would make a ton of money with the tournament. Might hold teams off trading vets. Not always an advantage to be awful.
A lottery tournament is really really stupid imo.