02-17-2026, 05:57 PM
(02-17-2026, 02:49 PM)Dahlsim Wrote: If you change the goals and mission of what you want to achieve with the draft then yes you could change it and consider your new plan an 'improvement'. Flattened odds basically redefines the entire reason the lottery was created.
The goal was to reward crappy help unfortunate organizations that can end up stuck in the bottom tiers perpetually. This wasn't for 'tankers' but what if organizations just had a bad luck streak, like devastating injuries? Now without great luck in the flattened odds, your team may be terrible forever or at least the foreseeable future.
The flattened odds will still reward poorer performing teams, it will just be less predictable and a smoother path from good to bad. The more spread out the odds the less incentive there will be to tank, but the bad teams will still on average get the better picks. The amount of tanking going on right now is already diluting the value of the lottery so discouraging that should help mitigate odds being flattened.