LogFAQs > #921929288

That's a similar system that I have suggested in the past. Responses I usually got were laughs, people ignoring it or people saying it was unnecessarily complicated.

I think if you go to that sort of system then you do away with the lottery part. You do it NFL style and then apply a penalty system. Maybe if you picked #1 this year then the highest you could pick next year is #20 then #15 then #10 then #5. You're not guaranteed those picks, if you outperform them you're picking lower but if you have back to back years of being the worst team tough shit you are picking #1 and then #20 the year after.

You could then extend it for like the top 4 picks or something. If you picked 2 then a similar thing but #16 > #11 > 6 (so 3 year penalty). For #3 it would be #12 > #7 (2 year penalty). For #4 you do just do #8 (1 year penalty). The numbers are arbitrary but you get what I mean

I'm sure like with any system teams would find a way to game it but it would be a lot harder. It would also potentially encourage recent high pickers to trade future picks for players to try improve since they would know they weren't getting a high pick.

I guess you could technically get into a ridiculous situation where like the tenth worst team gets the #1 pick if all the protections line up right. Or a playoff team gets to pick in the top 10 orsomething. But that happens now via trades anyway