Posted by AlCheez on 1/18/2012 12:04:00 PM (view original):
Posted by ovechkin008 on 1/18/2012 11:32:00 AM (view original):
Al, I actually submitted a ticket this morning. I don't think they'll do anything, but I hope to at least put this on their radar. Promising draft picks in future trades isn't really something they can enforce, I think it would have to be up to the league to veto any future deal that isn't quite even. But you're right, it might lead to them clarifying some of their guidelines.
Mike, I'm no more of a troublemaker than you are. Which doesn't necessarily mean that I'm not a troublemaker.
Well, the reality is WIS can't/doesn't proactively monitor for virtually anything in the fairplay guidelines - it has to be reported. So, if you and anyone else who doesn't like this leaves the world, and the people who come in are okay with it, it will probably continue unimpeded, even if the guidelines get clarified. But then the next person in your shoes will have something to point to. It's not like this is something that can be done in secret.
I just don't see any way WIS is going to be okay with this, there's so many reasons why it's a bad idea. And it can "work out" a bunch of times, it only takes it going bad once to really screw things up. And if a world is going to be okay with it, they have to be okay with it period. So yeah, maybe this time the guy dealing the picks is a long term owner who people feel they can trust to make good on it. Can the guy in his first year in the league trade his picks? If yes, you're setting yourself up for disaster. If no, you're tilting the playing field.
It was actually done in secret before this. Or it at least was not announced to the masses. I looked through the trade history, and you could see where nordique had made trades with owners one season, and then shipped off players who had been drafted that season during the following season. The question is whether the situation has come up where he makes a trade with an owner, promising draft picks the next season, and then that owner doesn't renew. If it's not announced in the WC, then nobody knows this was part of the deal. It's impossible to know if that has happened before, but it's certainly plausible.