09-01-2016, 10:06 PM
A couple things I would say in response:
1. Keep in mind that this league has taken other steps to discourage tanking. For example, the reason PcB has the #1 pick in the draft is because he had the best record of the teams not to make the playoffs. In the past, he would be the #4 pick, now he's got the #1 pick. It makes no sense that we would discourage tanking on the one hand while encouraging teams to sign players that aren't even able to play by rewarding the with good keepers.
2. Trading draft picks both requires somebody else to give up the draft pick, and also means that somebody else is getting value in exchange. Somebody who just gives up a roster spot to a player who isn't going to play again/at all is just going out on their own and tanking their own team.
3. I'd have no problem with setting a deadline (maybe using the trade deadline) for when a player must be on a team in order to be kept.
1. Keep in mind that this league has taken other steps to discourage tanking. For example, the reason PcB has the #1 pick in the draft is because he had the best record of the teams not to make the playoffs. In the past, he would be the #4 pick, now he's got the #1 pick. It makes no sense that we would discourage tanking on the one hand while encouraging teams to sign players that aren't even able to play by rewarding the with good keepers.
2. Trading draft picks both requires somebody else to give up the draft pick, and also means that somebody else is getting value in exchange. Somebody who just gives up a roster spot to a player who isn't going to play again/at all is just going out on their own and tanking their own team.
3. I'd have no problem with setting a deadline (maybe using the trade deadline) for when a player must be on a team in order to be kept.
This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena. ![[Image: ITgoyeg.png]](http://i.imgur.com/ITgoyeg.png)