Post by New York Mets on Apr 16, 2022 11:28:46 GMT -6
Please review the proposed change suggested by San Francisco, and please vote by clicking the box to the left of your preferred option on the poll.
AMATEUR DRAFT IV
The order of the selection in the amateur draft will be determined under the Gold Plan. Under the Gold Plan, each non- playoff team will be given 1 point for every win after they have been eliminated from the playoffs. Non-playoff teams will draft amateurs in the order of most Gold Points to the least points. Playoff teams will continue to draft in order of worst regular winning percentage to best winning percentage. Ties will be determined as stated under the current rule.
THE GOLD PLAN (AMATEUR DRAFT)
The idea goes like this: Instead of a system that encourages losing by awarding the best amateur picks to the league’s worst teams, you’d determine the draft order based on the number of wins each team earned after being eliminated from the playoffs. Once you’re mathematically out of the playoff hunt, you start the clock on banking wins towards your spot in the draft order. The team with the most post-elimination wins get the top pick, and so on down through the rest of the non-playoff teams.
The beauty of the plan is that it still weights the odds of getting the first pick heavily towards the league’s worst teams, because they’ll be eliminated first.
In a typical season, the league’s worst teams will get about ten games or so to rack up their wins, while teams that come close to the playoffs will only get a couple (and sometimes none at all). We’re still offering a hand up to the teams that need it most. It’s just that now, they have to earn that prize on the field. And their fans would be able to feel good about wins again.
The non-playoff team that wins the most games total after being mathematically eliminated from postseason contention gets the first overall pick. Second most wins gets pick two, and so on.
Suddenly, teams not only have no reason to try to be the team that loses 110 games, but teams have a strong incentive to try to stay good down the stretch. Call up some top prospects, perhaps? Not lay down in September?.....
@sfgiants said:
AMATEUR DRAFT IV
The order of the selection in the amateur draft will be determined under the Gold Plan. Under the Gold Plan, each non- playoff team will be given 1 point for every win after they have been eliminated from the playoffs. Non-playoff teams will draft amateurs in the order of most Gold Points to the least points. Playoff teams will continue to draft in order of worst regular winning percentage to best winning percentage. Ties will be determined as stated under the current rule.
THE GOLD PLAN (AMATEUR DRAFT)
The idea goes like this: Instead of a system that encourages losing by awarding the best amateur picks to the league’s worst teams, you’d determine the draft order based on the number of wins each team earned after being eliminated from the playoffs. Once you’re mathematically out of the playoff hunt, you start the clock on banking wins towards your spot in the draft order. The team with the most post-elimination wins get the top pick, and so on down through the rest of the non-playoff teams.
The beauty of the plan is that it still weights the odds of getting the first pick heavily towards the league’s worst teams, because they’ll be eliminated first.
In a typical season, the league’s worst teams will get about ten games or so to rack up their wins, while teams that come close to the playoffs will only get a couple (and sometimes none at all). We’re still offering a hand up to the teams that need it most. It’s just that now, they have to earn that prize on the field. And their fans would be able to feel good about wins again.
The non-playoff team that wins the most games total after being mathematically eliminated from postseason contention gets the first overall pick. Second most wins gets pick two, and so on.
Suddenly, teams not only have no reason to try to be the team that loses 110 games, but teams have a strong incentive to try to stay good down the stretch. Call up some top prospects, perhaps? Not lay down in September?.....