Posted by nauds3000 on 1/18/2012 8:40:00 AM (view original):
obviously the better situation is to wait until the draft actually takes place before seeing if it's a fair deal. Yet in many sports future draft picks are traded ALL the time. I don't see HBD as any different
Yes, in other sports future draft picks are traded all the time. But the difference between that and this is that when a draft pick is traded in real life, the team receiving the picks then has full control of who they are drafting. In this situation, the team receiving the picks still has to rely on the original team to do the drafting for them. As Mike (and others) have pointed out . . . it reeks of collusion.
And putting ratings aside, with a 0/0 draft scouting budget, the original team is only seeing a small fraction of what the other team might be able to see. So by that alone, they really can't get full value.
It's a screwed up world. I'm not sure why (a) anybody would agree to participate in a deal like that, and (b) why so many people are on board with letting the team that dominates season after season get away with operating this way. Not only on board with it, but vehemently defending it.
Must be some pretty good Kool Aid being served there.