There have been many solutions put forward to decrease incentives for teams finishing at the bottom of the ladder in the midst of the findings from the Melbourne tanking investigation.
Most of these don’t solve the problem. Many still offer incentives for teams to not put in their best effort on game day.
Under my suggested solution you could not accuse a team of tanking in order to gain a better draft pick.
Under my solution, the team that finished ninth gets the number one draft pick.
The other positions on the ladder receive the following picks:
Finishing Position/Draft Pick
9th – No.1
10th – No.2
11th – No.3
12th – No.4
13th – No.5
14th – No.6
15th – No.7
16th – No.8
17th – No.9
18th – No.10
8th – No.11
7th – No.12
6th – No.13
5th – No.14
4th – No.15
3rd – No.16
2nd – No.17
1st – No.18.
After the first round pick order resumes as it currently is with last place receiving the first pick in round two of the draft.
Qualifications for the priority pick will be abolished and priority picks will be issued under the AFL’s discretion where they think a team is struggling and needs an extra draft pick.
This way clubs don’t have a benchmark to aim for to improve draft position.
This draft order will ensure all teams strive to win every week and the tanking debate will be put to bed.
There is no way a team would engineer their results to finish ninth. Even if they wanted to it would be difficult.
I mean which club would prefer to finish ninth than eighth?
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