Michael Chait

Absolutely diabolical match lengths

In a flat odds environment, teams have incentives to stay under the cap and accumulate as many 1st rd picks as possible. All have equal odds to get a top pick,so they are lottery tickets. The more you accumulate the better you are. And teams will have less resistance to trade them. One has much lower odds In a flat odds worlds, teams don't have to lose games. This is much easier. They just have to have cheap contracts (worse players), to stay under the cap and help teams get back under the aprons/tax And if they sign a good one, but not great, they trade them for more lottery tickets. Making them worse again. You have every incentive to trade EVERY player that can get you a 1st pick until you get a generational player to build around AND enough picks to have a chance for another one Tanking in a different way Teams could literally be worse than this year You can't change how it works without capping the # of picks that can be traded or accumulated and how many years you can be under the cap 3/3/3 and you can have flat odds