[Football] NFL style draft

[Seat Stealer]

In the NFL in the USA they incorporate a draft each year for college players. Lowest rank team gets first pick and so on until Superbowl winners get last pick. It attempts to keep a level playing field. Imagine a similar system for the Premier League, accept monetary. Three promoted teams can spend up to £200 million each. Then last seasons 17th placed = £170 million decreasing by £10m for each position with the current champions getting £10m to spend. Soon get rid of the big 6. Would certainly make the league more open.

 

[BadFish]

The system is similar in Aussie Rules and it works quite well allowing clubs to cycle through a 'Premiership window' ever so often.

Clubs still need to be well run and recruit well to make this happen. Some teams have managed to buck the trend by staying competitive for longer with excellent recruitment and team management whereas some have done the opposite with shite management.

Won't happen in the Premier League though, money is too ingrained in the sport.

 

[SeagullinExile]

No. The yanks are trying to buy our game as it is! Let’s not go all ‘NFL’ it’ll just make it even worse.

 

[Streetlight]

Nice thought, but it would surely skewer the Championship if those dropping from the PL were suddenly far richer (although I guess it's no different from parachute payments).

 

[Barham's tash]

Given the prem constitution is 14/20 required to agree any change the big 6 would veto it outright. It’s like Turkey’s voting for Christmas. Sadly as I think it would be a great idea.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Good God no

 

[um bongo molongo]

Much the same could be achieved with a salary cap imho. Pay £300k per week to Haaland if you want, but you’ll have to pay lower to the rest of the squad.

 

[nickbrighton]

In the NFL in the USA they incorporate a draft each year for college players. Lowest rank team gets first pick and so on until Superbowl winners get last pick. It attempts to keep a level playing field. Imagine a similar system for the Premier League, accept monetary. Three promoted teams can spend up to £200 million each. Then last seasons 17th placed = £170 million decreasing by £10m for each position with the current champions getting £10m to spend. Soon get rid of the big 6. Would certainly make the league more open.

I have often wondered if a player is picked on the first draftbut doesnt want to go to that team, and say the team he wants to go to wants him, can he just refuse the draft untill its his prefered teams pick, or can he refuse the draft and then just be signed for his prefered team/ If so it surley becomes a nonsense as teams and players would just come to thoise agreements?

 

[The Wizard]

Awkward when Caicedo gets tranferred to Chelsea and we get Cucurella back

 

[Stephen Seagull]

Much the same could be achieved with a salary cap imho. Pay £300k per week to Haaland if you want, but you’ll have to pay lower to the rest of the squad.

I think a club-wide salary cap is a tremendous idea

 

[Balders]

It's not just the draft, it's the salary cap, free agency etc... all designed to make it as fairer playing field as possible. Ultimately all these things are designed to stop a handful of teams accumulating all the best players - sound familiar? And.......it turns over a shed load of money - more money than the Premier League!

 

[Wozza]

It's not just the draft, it's the salary cap, free agency etc... all designed to make it as fairer playing field as possible. Ultimately all these things are designed to stop a handful of teams accumulating all the best players - sound familiar? And.......it turns over a shed load of money - more money than the Premier League!

It's also a CLOSED SHOP and a FRANCHISE business. F**k that.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I have often wondered if a player is picked on the first draftbut doesnt want to go to that team, and say the team he wants to go to wants him, can he just refuse the draft untill its his prefered teams pick, or can he refuse the draft and then just be signed for his prefered team/ If so it surley becomes a nonsense as teams and players would just come to thoise agreements?

2004 Eli Manning. I believe he basically kicked off and threw a strop that he didn't want to get drafted by the team with the first pick. He told them before the draft that he didn't want to be picked and (someone who knows this better than me can tell me if I have this wrong) was still picked by the team and then had to stand there with the shirt not even pretending to look happy.

Again, I may have remembered this wrong but ultimately as the draft was going teams were almost trying to 'buy' manning off them. ie "We will give you this player and these picks in the draft to get Manning off you now"

Ultimately the team drafted him knowing he'd never play for them but they now had an asset people were willing to give them a good deal to get transferred (traded)

 

[albionalex]

In the NFL in the USA they incorporate a draft each year for college players. Lowest rank team gets first pick and so on until Superbowl winners get last pick. It attempts to keep a level playing field. Imagine a similar system for the Premier League, accept monetary. Three promoted teams can spend up to £200 million each. Then last seasons 17th placed = £170 million decreasing by £10m for each position with the current champions getting £10m to spend. Soon get rid of the big 6. Would certainly make the league more open.

Would never work unless every other European league did it as well.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

NFL is a closed shop of 32 teams in one country. Their player feed is from the college network in the same country.

How do you think you could implement this in the Premier League without handicapping our clubs against the rest of the world and where would this player pool come from?

 

[Balders]

Wozza they're just two different models, whether one is better than the other is down to may parameters. For me the NFL is fairer, but would I want the EPL to go that way, for a number of reasons, I don't think it will work.

 

[Swansman]

Would never work unless every other European league did it as well.

Exactly... that is one of the major differences. Most of the big yankee sports are basically one-league-sports where the NFL/NHL/MLB/NBA just completely shits on everything else and thats why it functions well. Football isn't like that... yet.

Most draft systems would also result in a competitive disadvantage against the giants like Real Madrid and Barcelona, which is something that wouldn't be tolerated by English clubs/club owners/fans.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

NFL is a closed shop of 32 teams in one country. Their player feed is from the college network in the same country.

How do you think you could implement this in the Premier League without handicapping our clubs against the rest of the world and where would this player pool come from?

That's why he didn't suggest that.

 

[studio150]

So the promoted teams can spend £200m.

The first player they look to sign, the selling club puts a £50m surcharge on top as selling to a club who has the money.
Alternatively a foreign club with links to a PL team buy the player then sell to the PL team for a fee that is within their allowance.

So many loopholes it just wouldn't work or be accepted.