NFL to Tinker With the Draft Order?
by iverson2169 on Mar 27, 2009 2:44 AM PDT
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Competition Committee to evaluate a new Method of Ordering Draft Picks.
The proposal: would keep non-playoff teams seeded as they normally would be, but would re-order the playoff teams according to performance.
At face value it seems like a step in attaining fair draft ordering, but discounts some factors such as lower quality teams riding a hot streak, and upper echelon teams suffering injuries.
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"A team can win a playoff game and yet get to draft before the team it beat," Rich McKay, the committee chairman, pointed out yesterday.
That situation will occur next month when the Eagles get to pick 21st while the Giants pick 29th.
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It doesn't seem to make a lot sense
Why rely on one or two playoff games over 16 regular season games?
I guess if you don't choose playoff teams entirely by their records,
It may as well work that way for drafting as well. It’s more fair for teams that don’t get to participate in the playoffs to draft higher than teams that do, even if they have a better record. The Patriots missed the playoffs but still pick 23rd, behind 3 playoff teams…that ain’t right.
This is just an extension of the rule that the Super Bowl participants pick last (note 9-7 Arizona picking 31st this year).
This is why the issue is being looked at right now:
The Patriots missed the playoffs but still pick 23rd, behind 3 playoff teams…that ain’t right.
The New England Tom Bradys are great at creating new rules. First the tuck rule, then the tackle below the knee rule, and now possibly the “we didn’t make the playoffs, we deserve a higher draft pick” rule.
Isn't that more of a problem with how they select play off teams
rather then how they make the draft order?
Absolutely.
Something which they could have addressed.
The more I think of it....
How ridiculous is this proposition???
The Patriots (for example) didn’t get into the playoffs at 11-5, so let’s find a way to get them a better draft pick?
Uh…. no
How about finding a way to get them into the playoffs.
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