Solution for Tanking

[Mr. Woke]

I like this. If the top teams got the top picks, then the picks would "trickle down" to the less prosperous teams - something that's been proven to work.

Teams need to have an incentive to play well instead of tanking.

[Ainosterhaspie]

Giving the top pick to the top team basically guarantees the same teams will be good every year, and the worst teams would have almost no chance at improving. It's not even rewarding teams for making good decisions. They almost have to try to become bad, and no matter how talented the front office and how hard they try, the teams lower down will be stuck with virtually no way to improve. As bad as tanking teams are now, they'd probably be even worse relative to the top teams under this system.

I'd be more in favor of teams in the middle of the rankings getting the top picks. Something like the 6-10 seeds having a lottery tournament every year after they're eliminated. Top players get top picks. Now the low end teams have no incentive to tank.