fatlever wrote:should i just send this to silver now or wait until the summer?fatlever wrote:recap
fats's plan
1) If you land the #1 pick you are ineligible to receive the #1 pick again for 5 years and ineligible to pick in the top 3 for 3 years.
a) For the first 3 years after you land the #1 pick your team will have no balls in the lottery machine. You will pick according to record once the top 3 teams are decided. So if you have the worst record, you will pick 4th.
b) In years 4 and 5 after you land the #1 pick, if your lotto combination comes up you are automatically slotted in the the #2 spot.
c) If two or more teams that have won the lottery in the past 5 years are in this situation the 2nd spot goes to the team further removed from winning the lottery and so on.
2) # of lotto balls would be decided based on average record for 3 years. This is to discourage a former playoff team from tanking hard one year while a star player is injured (such as the spurs when david robinson was hurt) or a team that has been competitive for a long time from tanking, getting lucky and bouncing right back into the playoffs.
3) Teams that picked in the top 3 the previous year would be ineligible to land in the top 3 the following year. They will pick based on record after the 3 lottery teams are decided.
4) I also like the idea of rewarded the playoff teams with 2nd round picks in reverse order of record. there should be some incentive to making the playoffs and high 2nd round picks are valuable.
31st and 32nd picks go to 8th seeds
33rd and 34th picks go to 7th seeds
etc...
the lottery teams pick in the 2nd round after the playoffs teams have picked.
Send it now. They obviously need help. The three-year ranking thing in particular seems like something folks could get behind. Same deal with teams not lucking into multiple #1s within a certain time frame.
One problem with any sort of change is that so many trades are already on the books involving future picks, and any shift in the lottery system affects the value of those picks.
