Tanking Solution

[Big Flappy]

Interesting article regarding tanking in the NBA in America...

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/39750/fix-tanking-the-sloan-solution

Won't ever happen but an interesting article none the less.

 

[Roby]

Tanking doesn't happen, it's called list management and developing young or inexperienced players.

 

[estibador]

Better one. In b4 everyone jumps on it because I'm a Melbourne supporter.

Allocate draft picks based on how long since you've won a flag. Teams without a flag slot in at the year they first started playing.

Thus, draft for end of 2012, assuming Collingwood win the 2012 premiership.

1. Western Bulldogs
2. Melbourne
3. St Kilda
4. Richmond
5. Fremantle
6. Carlton
7. Adelaide
8. North Melbourne
9. Essendon
10. Brisbane
11. Port Adelaide
12. Sydney
13. West Coast
14. Hawthorn
15. Gold Coast
16. Geelong
17. GWS
18. Collingwood

Second round of draft picks allocated as it is now.

Almost no incentive to tank, as it gets you virtually nowhere.

Or you could just rotate the draft order every year for the same effect without the ridiculous leg ups to selected teams.

Imagine how farcical the competition would become if the AFL started handing the Dogs the #1 pick every year until they won the premiership. Tanking is just a bug on the windscreen compared to the damage that would do to the integrity of the comp.

 

[IanW]

Here's my solution to tanking:

The AFL's integrity officer can call upon a club to explain if they make really strange match committee choices or aren't satisfied that they're doing everything to win. The questions could be specific based on common sense football knowledge, like "why did you play this player out of position when clearly he wasn't injured and was in good form, when you could have won the game."

/signed.

An issue is tanking isnt yes or no - for example, Port Adelaide. I agree with Port supporter who said they didnt tank, they were just shit - but at the same time, they declined to play Chad Cornes last year, who probably still is an average AFL player, and therefore worth a spot in a team battling for a wooden spoon.

They didnt do it because getting games into kids is the way you develop them quickly.

The other reason tanking has dropped out of fashion is I think people have seen what it did to the club culture at Melbourne.

 

[lionel_luthor]

Its Rnd 1 FFS and people bringing up Tanking again ...

We watched a great game last night with sublime skills from Rioli and Buddy, and yet some are still obsessed with tanking ?

Teams like Brisbane and Port will struggle again this year, and deserve the assistance they get at the draft, suggesting a 'rotating' draft for clubs, no matter where they finish, is just an idiotic and unworkable idea, as is the lottery.

 

[knobby]

Rather then a lottery for picks how about a lottery for players ??

1st round players are put in a barrel - rankings to be determined by panel of recruiters.

18th team still gets 1st pick - but it's a lucky dip !

Clubs get the right to say we don't need a ruck man/forward/KPD etc but only one choice.

So using last years picks and prob finishing order this year
1. GWS might have drawn Wingard
2. GC might draw Longer
3. Bris coniglio
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