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Priority Draft Picks

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sgloury

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I apologise if I have raised this on the wrong page but can anyone explain how the priority draft pick works now?

I have looked on the AFL website where it says that the priority pick is now given prior to the start of the 2nd round in the draft - which was consistent with my understanding. However the AFL website does not seem to explain/clarify what will trigger a team gaining a priority draft pick now. All it says is that if a team has fewer than 5 wins they may qualify for a priority pick?

However based on my limited understanding, I thought that a priority pick was now dependent upon a teams performance (or lack thereof) over a 2 year period.

Can anyone clarify for certain?
 
From 2006, any club that has 16 premiership points or less at the end of the home and away season is entitled to one priority draft selection (before round two) at the NAB AFL draft.
If a club has 16 points or less at the end of a second consecutive season, it is entitled to one priority draft selection before the first round of the NAB AFL Draft.
Where one or more clubs are entitled to a priority draft selection, the selection will occur in reverse order to the order the respective clubs finished on the ladder.
A club entitled to a priority draft selection can trade that selection provided that any exchange complies with the rules.
 
Just on priority picks and number-1 draft picks....

Until the Melbourne game, I was one who wanted to keep losing so we could get this coveted number-1 pick, and didn't care if we 'tanked' to gain something from a season that wasn't going to lead to any finals appearance for us.

However, since halfway through that Melbourne game, I have chnaged my tune somewhat.

I think maybe we are placing too much importance on this number-1 pick, like it is going to guarantee us success into the future, when I am thinking maybe playing good footy and winning matches might be more important for our already young list to gain some confidence and look forward to the future.
Winning matches, I think, will change the culture and mentality of the team, not top draft picks, where we don't know what they will do anyways.

For example, Judd went at number-3 in the draft....Bartel at 8...Dal santo at 13...(Hodge went at 1)......Kerr went at 18 (Koschitzke at 1, and we know how he has been constantly injured).......and of course the celebrated cases of Pavlich and Franklin, both who went top-10, but not at number-1.
then you have roughies like Hird and Chris Grant who went at 78 and 105 (or something) respectively.

There is a lot of hype about Kreuzer, and maybe that is justified......but I'm sure that hype was present with someone like Kosi as well.

My point being, that with a draft, the top-10 players are usually pretty good young players, but it is a lottery when it comes to who will be a superstar and someone who will be just a good, solid player......and we all know that we won't make finals, and we are guaranteed a top-3 pick, and maybe a priority.

But the only thing CERTAIN out of all this, is that winning games is a guarantee for success, not relying on a knight in shining armour to save the day at pick 1 in a draft.

Am I alone in wanting us to win matches instead of tanking? or?

Is tanking going to help us in the long term? or do you prefer to win matches and gain a winning mentality into a young group?

Interested in your thoughts....
 
You're certainly not alone, I would much prefer to see a winning team, and a team that gets used to winning. There are always a number of players who are fairly certain of being in the top 5 or so and any of them can be very good players.

Exactly how long should this supposed benefit of finishing low on the ladder last for? If we win 4 games or less this year, there would probably be some wanting 4 games or less next year to move our priority pick to pre round 1.
 
Agree, would prefer to win games as we should be able to get a good player with pick 2, 3 or higher. Dislike the current "reward" system intensely.

However there's also the prospect of a bonus pick at #17 to consider, which would give us more leeway when considering whether to cut our losses with e.g. a Moore or Meyer and start again with a relatively high pick.
 
Haviong the number 1 pick is perhaps not so important but the extra pick in the late teens would be handy. So I guess another couple of wins would be good.
 
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