(03-24-2020, 06:49 PM)sapp2013 Wrote:regarding the 8th, 10th, 12th comment, assuming all teams are balanced TPE wise (which they arent, but I am not digging into that info) really only the 8th and 10th players would be selected with 1 or 2 12th players. also, each team gets presumably 2 high TPE earners because of the GMs. the teams also get rookies and can sign any free agent that wants to go there.I think its hard to do a comparison with madden numbers. Either way first of all we are not quite set up with talent like the NFL is, but still i doubt a team like that would perform as well on the field as you could do in madden.
regarding the NFL comment, you could make a decent team with those parameters. using this website I looked at the first 4 teams on the list, Vikings, rams, dolphins, and Chargers. These were the overalls of the 8,10,and 12 of each team in overall order: 86, 85, 85, 84, 83, 82, 82, 81, 79, 78, 76, 76. I'd be happy with that pull and could do some damage with it. the reason why this pull isnt bad is because how the NFL did it back in 2002 was they could list any 5 players from their roster, and those were the only players you could choose from. That in my mind is way stricter than what I was looking for and probably why the texans struggled so much to make their first playoff appearance.
according to the 2017 NHL Expansion draft, you could protect 9 or 11 players depending on strategy. the NHL has a 23 active roster, so just under 50% are protected, but the expansion team could only take 1 player per team (30 original teams). the Golden Knights went on to the cup finals in their first year, so its not a death penalty by any means to take players outside of a teams top 8 players.
As for the NHL, i think thats just not a good comparison because that draft still is weird to me to this day, and also just that as far as how the sport works. You couldnt compare the NHL to any NFL rules, let alone the NSFL. Taking a guy outside of the top 8 in hockey isnt anywhere as close as outside the top 8 in football. I think similar thing with your NBA example.
But i think on the flip side, your argument seems to be that its ok with your rules, but the current rules are for some reason crazy? If memory serves right, we did 6 protections last time, and could take 4 players from each team, a year of buikd up before starting play, and still having top picks the year they open operations. Austin just won the championship after staring their first season winless, putting together r straight losing seasons, ans finally coming up big thanks to many good moves, they certainly didnt just have a good expansion and rest on those laurels to victory. If thats what you view as too easy i just cant agree there. Then Chicago went full win now, had some early success and now are still working to build back up. So with some other leagues we can say hey, maybe its not too bad, though i disagree with how you can interpret that. But with direct NSFL comparisons i dont see how this is crazy at all, and not sure how your proposed rules dont just subjext anyone drafted to these teams with no real hope of seeing success