Blind bid system for draft

[Doggy Dan]

Reckon they can change things up a bit and make the draft fairer and more exciting

Idea is an extension of the point system where each pick has point rating (maxing out at pick 72, 4 picks per club, per season)

Rather than an order of picks essentially each club ends up with their bank of points and can blind bid on any player with any amount of points as each pick goes through. i.e when pick 1 comes up each clubs bids (if they choose to) whatever points they want to for whatever player they want. The highest unique bid on any player becomes the pick.

The process is repeated all the way through. your points are only depleted for successful bids. A club could go all in if they absolutely love a player early or hold off for a raft of mid-tier, etc.

You can still offer a 10% point boost for Academy, NGA, father son but doesn’t give direct access and you can’t muck around as you don’t know what’s going to happen. Points can also be added for FA compo, etc but not extra picks that come out of nowhere. Keep all the unsuccessful bids silent until the draft is done.

You can still trade in advance, etc just that the picks become points at the time of draft.
The draft is boring as batshit. It gets rid of all the bidding and the bullshit movement of picks.

Find the holes?

 

[00Stinger]

What if 4 clubs bid all 4 of their picks to get pick 1?

 

[RUNVS]

I had a somewhat similar idea a few years ago

I have posted this on other threads before but I think it deserves its own thread at least in terms of the discussion.

The problem with the current system is that it is so hard to get proper value for a player, getting exactly what that player is worth rather than trying to find a deal with picks, picks that won't necessarily match what the player is actually worth.

That is very convoluted.

I will be honest and say I think the best solution is actually going entirely points based for drafting and trading.

Each team has points at the start of the trading process based on their ladder position

18th position - 4647 points
17th position - 4088 points
16th position - 3740 points
15th position - 3478 points
14th position - 3263 points
13th position - 3077 points
12th position - 2913 points
11th position - 2765 points
10th position - 2631 points
9th position - 2504 points
8th position - 2388 points
7th position - 2279 points
6th position - 2174 points
5th position - 2077 points
4th position - 1983 points
3rd position - 1894 points
2nd position - 1809 points
1st position - 1726 points

and lets use the Kelly example from a few years ago where West Coast didn't really have anything Geelong wanted. They could instead under this system simply pay Geelong 1950 points and West Coast would get Kelly (both teams negotiating how many points Kelly is worth).

Then come the draft day pick 1 is announced and every team has 2 minutes to submit who they want with pick 1, and the points they are willing to pay for pick 1.

Then, the team that handed over the most points for pick 1 gets the player they nominated (and it is not shown what the other teams did). We then move onto pick 2, teams placing bids, stating the player they want and the points they are willing to pay and then the team that submitted the highest points total gets the player they want, then moving onto pick 3 etc.

If an academy kid is nominated at some point in the draft then the side the academy kid is attached to has a right to match the bid the rival team placed on said academy player, paying the points the rival team wants to pay.

It also potentially allows a lot more freedom in the draft for individual clubs to do what they think is best. For instance Adelaide could really really want Jason Horne, a local boy and supposedly the best player in the draft. They could use almost all their points on a pick 1 bid and get Jason Horne. It would mean having really crappy later picks but it would get the player they really want. Then we could have North Melbourne who could decide that no, we are not going to go after pick 1, and instead we are going to use our points later in the draft and bid on picks 7, 8 and 9, and suddenly North have 3 top 10 players and are able to turbocharge their rebuild.

Also clubs can bank points, so if a club decides not to use 1000 points they will have those points in next years draft.

To me this is a much fairer system, not just for the academies, but for the trading and drafting system in general.

What do you think? What do you like about the idea, what are the flaws, and do you think the idea is fesible?

I think it would work, or someone smarter than me could make it work, and it would be a much fairer system.

 

[doppleganger]

Find the holes?

That is standard fantasy draft approach so it works.

Problem is the AFL draft is a key equalisation pillar (which is already compromised by points and NGA) of which the AFL wants to give the poor performing clubs first crack at who they think is best youth.

 

[Doggy Dan]

What if 4 clubs bid all 4 of their picks to get pick 1?

Then the club with the highest points (i.e lowest finishing position) gets pick 1.

 

[Doggy Dan]

That is standard fantasy draft approach so it works.

Problem is the AFL draft is a key equalisation pillar (which is already compromised by points and NGA) of which the AFL wants to give the poor performing clubs first crack at who they think is best youth.

You could tweak this so much more easily than the current model as you could simply make the points lean significantly more to the bottom end.

 

[1970crow]

What if 4 clubs bid all 4 of their picks to get pick 1?

The likelihood they’d be holding the exact same pick value would be slim. If it happened, you could separate by chance, that seasons ladder or how about letting the player decide.