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A weakest team should always pick higher than the strongest team. Academys remove the advantage, unless the academy pool get's inserted in the draft. This would be ok as everyone can get your molded player.

normally order of the strength in the league, which the draft is about balancing out:

top group: 2-3 top team, and the relegated team(two-three get crappy picks, one get a genious one)

upper lower group: get a fair picker, sometimes something useful but in a fair relation to there strength

lower average group: also get fair chanches related to the other groups

weakest group: 2-3 team who stayed in league + newly protoed team. Some get quite early pick, other get the worst.

Is that really somekind of balancing?

That's where we have completely different views. You want a team that promotes (was the strongest team in his league) to receive the first draft pick in addition to his promotion bonus. How is that helping against tanking. If I get a great draftee and know I have slight chances to win, I will just rack up money and train that draft pick the whole season. If I relegate and receive that draftee, I can't just throw the season to train him, as I need to compete to get back up. See the difference?

i trained 18 yo even in a harder enviroment without throwing a season, i often selled quite useful draft pick which helps my team also. But with the new merch rules, tanking is the oppurtunity to catch up in the merchandise area ;) And managing towards succes.

Your case about the draft has some merit but how is it relevant to this thread about tanking ?
So I will ask again, more to the point, what's the main incentive for tanking, the draft pick or cash ?
Why are we talking about the draft when everything is about the money ?

You are mistaken on a lot of your assumptions. In short, you talk crap.

Nowadays, most teams don't promote back like you seem to say.

Let's travel to Germany D.III.
We will look at the two 8th of each league's conference in season 18 and see if they promoted on season 19.
Easy to look at.

I will present the result like this : a/b/c
a is the nr of teams which promoted back
b is the nr of teams which didn't
c is the nr of teams which became bots

III.1 : 1/1/0
2 : 0/2/0
3 : 0/2/0
4 : 0/2/0
5 : 0/2/0
6 : 0/2/0
7 : 0/1/1
8 : 1/0/1
9 : 2/0/0
10 : 1/1/0
11 : 0/1/1
12 : 0/1/1
13 : 1/1/0
14 : 0/2/0
15 : 0/1/1
16 : 1/0/1

So out of 32 teams, 7 promoted back, 19 failed to promote back, 6 are now bots.

Same with Bundesliga, 1 team in D.II, 1 team in D.III.

Same with German D.II : 3 teams promoted back, 4 teams failed to promote back, 1 team relegated to D.IV.

At first glance, it is harder to promote back in lower leagues. The competition is more even as teams can't stockpile cash easily.

Tanking is primarily beneficial to top league teams.
Top leagues teams are not interested in the draft, they have cash to buy themselves trainees and they need already developed players not crappy 18 yo.
Look at U21, almost all in lower leagues.
Lower league teams rely on draftees.
Top league teams buy those draftees when the salary becomes unmanageable for the lower league teams.

Top league teams can make a fortune (from a lower league perspective) in a few weeks of tanking. Do you want to make us believe they are incredibly interested in the draft that costs money to scout and needs luck ?
Bundesliga's last draft : 1st choice was a 4k MVP PF who was kept, 2nd choice was a 5.5k PAS C sold for 237k, 3rd choice was a 3.7k PAS C sold for 1k, 4th choice was a 4.5k AS SF sold for 250k, 5th choice was a 4.4k SS PG who was kept.
Why are you creating a problem out of this ?

Let's talked about real issues.

So out of 32 teams, 7 promoted back, 19 failed to promote back, 6 are now bots.

thx you for udnerlining my point, even if a bit more then every fourth team promoted back which say my top 4 prognose was a bit pessimistic.

Why are you creating a problem out of this ?

since i didn't undersand that the need of a draft is pushing the top 4 team of a league, and to make it fair just a single one and punishing the others ;)

And that you need the draft since, else everybody would have the same chanches on a good draft even the old top team who stayed in league, instead of deserving a good pick in failing to win games.

Last edited by CrazyEye at 7/9/2012 4:07:18 AM

i trained 18 yo even in a harder enviroment without throwing a season, i often selled quite useful draft pick which helps my team also.

When was this hard enviroment for you? Season 4,5? You have always been an upper section team. Making the playoffs.
Being a promoted team is a lot more easier, than being a team that has relegated. That is a fact.

i trained then in cup/scrimamge, in hoepless away games etc.

the digit was double, maybe you could also count dincmen as one of then, even when he had 2 skills above 7 when i got him(maybe even one at ten)

I must not understand what you are saying.

Can you clarify why it is related to tanking ?

kukoc say when you get a good draft pick, when you are succesfull people will start tanking.

So i replied to him out of my view, which don't see why you need to keep a draft to avoid tanking.


Last edited by CrazyEye at 7/9/2012 4:37:42 AM

I didn't understand he said you need to keep the draft to avoid tanking.
He just disagrees with you about exchanging the draft picks, it is unrelated to tanking.

Kukoc:

and need to catch up to theis opponent through a better draft pick(this is something promoted team would need)

That's where we have completely different views. You want a team that promotes (was the strongest team in his league) to receive the first draft pick in addition to his promotion bonus. How is that helping against tanking. If I get a great draftee and know I have slight chances to win, I will just rack up money and train that draft pick the whole season. If I relegate and receive that draftee, I can't just throw the season to train him, as I need to compete to get back up. See the difference?

Which is also a bit contrary to his previous point, that weak team need draft ;) Since he don't want weak team to get drafts too.

But i think you can easily train one youngster without tanking. Espeicially when you ain't at the top, and usually concentrate on 1 game each week.

Last edited by CrazyEye at 7/9/2012 5:05:43 AM

But you seem to say that exchanging draft picks will help against tanking.

He is only contradicting you.

So again, do you think teams tank for the draft or for the cash ?
What should be discussed here, changes on the cash distribution or the draft ?

Because your point is interesting to discuss but imho it's unrelated to the thread.

We are boring the audience with this and losing the main point, let's talk about tanking !
Make yourself comfortable with a dedicated thread to your ideas on the draft :)

But you seem to say that exchanging draft picks will help against tanking.

no that was the way we come to tanking and Kukoc argues ;) For em giving the draft pick to the worst team, is an additiional incentive to tank.

And i am just saying that draft is something which works in a close league, but not in one with relegation and promotion. Since the good player end as the top teams, instead of the bad teams. While kukoc say that the draft is needed, since relegated team would be screwed without it likes his one(hhe won the lower league 22-0).

I am replying to it, that the weak team are the promoted not the relegated teams(they usually not without a loss), and that if the draft would work like intended it had to be exchanging draft picks(which don't work with the current system either).

So again, do you think teams tank for the draft or for the cash ?

they sometimes do it for both, i experienced team start tank after seeing a 5/5 player around the ASD. And the draft is always a monetary advantage, often a smaller one then the money you may gain.

What should be discussed here, changes on the cash distribution or the draft ?


Because your point is interesting to discuss but imho it's unrelated to the thread.

hehe thats right, i was pretty convinced that it was mostly about the youth academy, which was also started as a tanking counter.