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Originally Posted by DarkCloud_PK
should we go to 16 teams max?
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Absolutely NOT. I swear to whatever god you follow that this is a horrible idea. The main reason has already been stated, but let me repeat it. If you have too many teams, the talent pool is thread farrrrr too thin.
Here's a quick example. After four rounds with 12 teams, you'd have 48 players taken. After four rounds with 16 teams, you'd have 64 players taken. So if you did have the last pick of the fourth round, you'd be taking the 64th best player rather than the 48th. The eighth round would be far worse: 96 vs 128. The further you go into the draft, the more you have to reach for 2nd and 3rd stringers to try and fill in your squad.
It's easy to say "people who do better research will do fine even with more teams," but let's be honest: absolutely no one predicted Miles Austin would have the season he did last year. Trying to pick from a bunch of backups/rookies and find value is fun when you've actually heard of the guy (12 teams,) but in the later rounds of a 16 team draft, you're literally picking from people you've hardly heard of, at least in my experience (and make no mistake, I follow the NFL thoroughly.)
So those are my thoughts. I'm very against having too many teams, as I've found 10-12 means there's enough good players spread around to make things fairly competitive, rather than having a few dominant teams and a lot of pathetic teams that you'll often get with 16 team draft. By no means will only having 10-12 prevent really good/bad teams, but it pulls the teams closer to the middle, rather than pushing them to the extremes (as is found with 16 teams.)
Man I tend to ramble in these sort of replies...
06-05-2010, 03:41 AM
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