Future drafting

[NakedDeadGuy]

Just wondering if anyone knows what the compensation will be for any players lost to the new franchises? I remember seeing something about some formula involving age, games played, round drafted but can't find anything concrete.
If it's an arbitrary compensation, maybe could see an exploitation by ripping games into early picks who haven't panned out as planned? eg Tenace, round 1 pick, 50 odd games, 23yo. Looks good on paper, and I reckon teams that shut up shop early like WC last year are ripe for doing this.

 

[catempire]

Just wondering if anyone knows what the compensation will be for any players lost to the new franchises? I remember seeing something about some formula involving age, games played, round drafted but can't find anything concrete.
If it's an arbitrary compensation, maybe could see an exploitation by ripping games into early picks who haven't panned out as planned? eg Tenace, round 1 pick, 50 odd games, 23yo. Looks good on paper, and I reckon teams that shut up shop early like WC last year are ripe for doing this.

I haven't heard about any formula. I find it hard to see how such a system could work or even if there was a system like this, how it could be rorted. Maybe if you had players right on the cusp (e.g 49 games) you might tip them over the edge if that meant getting a higher pick if you lost them.

Usually the compensation for lost out of contract players is a priority pick of some sort isn't it? For example, didn't we get Steven King with one of these (and maybe Adam Houlihan) when we lost O'Reilly and Wills to Freo?

 

[geelong_boy]

Usually the compensation for lost out of contract players is a priority pick of some sort isn't it? For example, didn't we get Steven King with one of these (and maybe Adam Houlihan) when we lost O'Reilly and Wills to Freo?

Yes that's how it happened. I'm not sure how it worked exactly but the club had access to talented 16-year olds (in our case Houlihan and King).

IIRC, the Bombers lost an average utility in Matt Ridley and got a 16 year old kid named Matthew Lloyd as compensation. Not bad.