(Today, 02:45 AM)F Gump Wrote: I don't think you can ever truly eliminate "tanking." If you have the BEST teams getting to draft the best new players, you kill the ability for the currently-bad teams to have the talent to compete. So there will be some sweet spot for teams to fight over, and you can't eliminate that place everyone wants to be (or the chase for it).
I don't think they can eliminate it either. Teams know who will be the top college players in the draft. At some point, maybe 2-3 weeks before the season ends, teams will begin to jockey for position. They can see mock drafts just like we do, and their analytics probably tell them who to shoot for in regards to position.
I think at this point, "tanking" really just looks like a lack of won-loss concern. Dallas of course, doesn't have to do anything. They have so many injuries that they can only play the players they have. But at this point I don't think you can signal to your players that you want less effort. I've said this before, but I don't think season ticket holders would appreciate some kind of conspicuous tanking at this point in the season. Filling the seats still matters to the owners.