Dear Coaches,
In previous years we have had a peculiar MSD draft order. The reason is we felt that the simple snake order that we have at the PSD wasn’t a large enough benefit for the lower teams given the quality of player drops away rapidly from round 1 to 2 to 3. So instead of the simple snake we’ve had the following
- Round 1: 10th to 1st (based on ladder order)
- Round 2: Random draw
- Round 3+: Snake from then on
The problem is that random draw isn’t actually equitable. It is just random. It is also a pain to organise and as Administrator I’m withdrawing my random draw services for the MSD. So this historical draft order has officially ended.
So what to replace it with?
Last year during COVID, by emergency Administrative decision we experimented with the following order:
- Round 1: 10th to 1st (based on ladder order)
- Round 2: 10th to 1st (based on ladder order)
- Round 3+: Snake from then on
This extra benefit to the lower teams seemed to be justified – it certainly didn’t help them too much. Of the bottom 5 teams at the MSD, none of them made the top 5 teams at the end of regular season except the 8th placed Mayblooms who snuck into 5th.
The RGC has now brainstormed and compared 5 different alternative models for the MSD Draft Order and for 2021 have settled on the following tweak to the COVID 2020 order above:
- Round 1: 10th to 1st (based on ladder order)
- Round 2: 10th to 1st (based on Points For)
- Round 3+: Snake from then on
So it is exactly the same as what we did in 2020 except Round 2 is based is 10th to 1st based on Points For rather than ladder order. This helps balance out the inequities created when someone who is last actually has decent points for and is getting unfairly rewarded at the MSD or someone who is high on the ladder has low points for and is getting unfairly punished at the MSD.
This proposed model has the unanimous support of the RGC.
Given as described above we don’t have an incumbent model to vote out, as it were, we can’t have a standard vote on this.
Instead, given the unanimous RGC support I’m going to announce that the proposed model will be the MSD order in 2021 unless there are significant objections from the group and clear support for an alternative model (which I doubt).
Kind Regards,
Logistix
PS – Kudos to Koach for his suggestion that provided the tweak required to create the final proposal that garnered full RGC support.