Quote:I'm not sure I like that, either.

 

What of the team that goes from worst to first (i.e. Stl. Louis Rams in 1999)?

 

Should a team that wins the Super Bowl be awarded with a middle first round pick because they didn't have their stuff together in the years before their ascent?

 

Or, should a long time contender who, after years of low picking in each round, fails to replenish talent sufficiently, age, and finally collapse be penalized because they won 2-3 seasons ago?

 

Just keep the part of the draft we currently have where playoff teams are seeded separately from non playoff teams and the two teams that participate in the Superbowl draft with the last two picks.

 

It's really not hard. When a team has the kind of problems that the bucs, raiders, Jaguars, bills, etc have for years and years the last thing the team should have to worry about is whether they're ruining their shot at a great player and dropping four slots in the draft because they win a meaningless game in week 17.

 

Sure it could still come into play with my idea for a rolling two or three year record determining draft position instead of only the prior season, but it's much less likely and statistically speaking as you increase a sample size you come much closer to the actual statistical quality of a team over time.

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