S22 Expansion

[sapp2013]

I sould say its incredibly far out. Youre just punishing expansion teams in a situation that is already harsher than the last expansion rules. I get that you "protect other teams here" but as is based on my preliminary looks based on the preliminary looks theres an incredibly small chance with these rules that we get 7 actives each from this draft, maybe 7 actives total. And any actives we are getting are either mid earners or regressing guys (still very valuable users for a locker room but less so for an expansion franchise).

We are essentially getting the 8th best, 10th best, and 12th best players from each team. And i think thats fair, just to be clear. But i think looking at that its crazy to think the rules are too easy for expansion teams. Its a good level of harsh, obviously imma take what i can get being one of the said expansion teams but either way im not upset with those rules.

Take the 8th, 10th, and 12th best player from each NFL team and youre not gonna make the playoffs. Do it from the XFL and that team is winless. Do it in the NBA and most you would be lucky to win 10 games. Again, i agree eith the rules, but i think copying an NBA system is insane for a league like ours

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.

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.