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O.city · Today, 11:21 AM

Should the NFL have a draft lottery, NBA style?

Why or why not?

duncan_idaho · Today, 02:58 PM

Absolutely ****ing not.

**Rain Man** · Today, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by wheatie

Bottom two teams battle it out the last week of the season for the right to draft first. Or make it a 4 team playoff, for the first four picks. That way teams would have to try and win a least once. I've seen two many teams shut down their high priced players to avoid injury and guaranteed contracts. There is a big difference between drafting 1st and 4th.

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I think there was a short experiment in the 1950s where the regular draft started with the second pick, and the first pick was a pure lottery among all the teams. Let me see if I can find out what happened. I only read it about once a long time ago, and have never heard anything more about it.

I'm not really sure what a lottery solves on first glance. Without a lottery, you might tank to get a higher pick. With a lottery, you might tank for a chance at a higher pick. The strategy is the same, except the lottery adds a little more risk. But I'm not sure that would really change the minds of teams who would be inclined to tank.

Maybe a better approach would be to move your draft spot up by one if you win on the final week of the season. That would prevent weak teams from tanking and strong teams from sitting starters. You'd have a little bit of math to adjust for the fact that half the teams will win, but that's easy to solve.

The two of us agree on a late-season winning contest to keep teams from tanking, and on average we have over 70,000 posts. So we must be correct.

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**Bearcat** · Today, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by RunKC

10 years ago the Eagles, Chiefs, Bills and Lions fans had never seen their teams win a Super Bowl. Now 2 of those teams have, the 2 others are Super Bowl contenders and teams like the Bengals played in a Super Bowl recently.

Long suffering teams like the Commanders finally got a QB and were a game from the Super Bowl.

How can you say that isn’t parity? If anything, we’ve learned that bad ownership is the primary cause of futility

I dunno, you mentioned a 10 year span and said two surprise teams won the Super Bowl... and those two teams have combined for 5 of the past 10, and Tom Brady accounted for 3 more.

The Lions have beat one team with 10+ wins in the playoffs (and they were 10-7) the past two postseasons, same with the Commanders.... the NFC is pretty shitty, so I'd agree there's parity in the sense that some shit team has to play in the NFCCG and meet up with the one SB contender.

Chris Meck · Today, 03:12 PM

No.

In the NFL, if your team sucks ALWAYS, it's poor management. There is every opportunity to improve, and it's rigged in such a way as to be extremely difficult to stay on top.

Even though it would be to OUR benefit in these Mahomes years, I am against it.

I like that it's hard.

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