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Originally Posted by Burt the Butcher
Might this encourage teams with decent but not great team, who is on the fence between winning last game and making playoffs (with virtually no shot to win the championship) or losing last game and go into losers bracket with MUCH better chance to run the board and get pick 1.1?
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I suppose that could be a possibility, but even if a team did stoop to that level, they're not guaranteed to actually move up. They could just as easily be one and done in the first round and drafting 6th with no shot at the title.
The idea is to encourage the bottom teams to stay active, and thus to make it harder on teams that might attempt something like this. I think keeping the bottom 4-5 teams more interested outweighs one team possibly trying to make a run at the 1 seed in lieu of the playoffs.
I suppose we could counter activity such as this bay making in such that no team can move up higher than 3 seeds or drop lower than 3 seeds)?