by TefJ » Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:28 pm
Billy,
Here's my point:
With the current system, we're always creating and destroying draft picks when any trade occurs. It's very confusing and hard to keep track of how many picks everyone needs at any given moment. It also makes it very strange and difficult to trade low picks, as now you can be penalized and have to make additional drops, and/or not be able to get to 40. Litangel would need to have cut 11 players, so he would have the ten draft picks he has (traded two, acquired two), and then he would have to draft an extra player in the 11th round.
With the way I proposed, each draft pick is still accounted for with a drop from somebody. (Litangel for the two picks he traded, and whoever traded them to him for the other two). Also, we don't have to bookkeep as much, as we simply forfeit any draft pick that is to be made by anyone with 40 players on their roster. It just seems simpler, fairer, and I don't see that it hurts anything.
Let's say I trade a player to you for a 10th round pick. I have one less guy to drop to get to 30 before the draft, but you have one more, so the total is the same, it just places the burden on the person receiving the player, rather than the one receiving the pick.
If you acquire an extra early round pick, admittedly, you will have to forfeit your #10 pick when it becomes your turn, so I see your point about not being able to trade it. However, you could just as easily do a 2 for one during the draft and need that pick, anyway, so it would re appear.
I just think it's easier and fairer to make your drops correspond to your picks, and then deal with the consequences of trades as they come up. What do you think?