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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Revamping the draft
Out of the box ideas only please. Here’s one: If you pick first one year, you can’t pick first again the following year. Because it takes time for players to graduate, you can pick first or second for three straight years, then suddenly, you’ve got 3 young stars all ready to explode together.
To try to make that idea work, you should come up with a system. For example, if you pick #1, that adds 10 “wins” to your next season’s total, 5 “wins” to the year after that and 3 “wins” to the third year. If you pick #2, you add 7, 3, 2. If you pick #3, you add 5,2,1. If you pick #4, you add 2, 1, 0. All numbers for illustration purposes only.
Take for example when the Nats drafted Strasburg in 2009 (they got that pick being in 2008 they won 59 games). Following that draft, in 2009, they ended up with 59 wins again. And because of that, they got Bryce Harper. But, under my model, they would count as 69 “wins”. That would put them after Arizona’s 70 wins in 26th place. (I didn’t check to see how the other teams would move up.)
Your ideas? And, you can only shoot down an idea if you also bring one to the table.
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