I don’t know if this would work for bigger leagues but how the NPB (Japanese baseball) does the draft is fascinating. -- (edited)
Posted by
spamlet
Oct 26 '20, 16:15
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Rounds 2+ are just like every other draft but the first round works like this.
Every team puts in who they want to draft in the first round. If you’re the only team to name a player you get him.
If more than one team puts in for a player they have a lottery. The winner of the lottery gets the player and all the losers of all the lotteries make another pick from the players not yet drafted. They repeat the process for duplicates until each team has a player.
It’s a fascinating way to avoid tanking but I’m not sure how it would work for 30 teams like it does for 12.
Here’s what happened in detail form:
Orix: Teruaki Satoh (Kinki Univ IF)
Yakult: Takahisa Hayakawa (Waseda RHP)
Fighters: Hiromi Itoh (Komadai Tomakomai RHP)
Carp: Ryoji Kuribayashi (Toyota RHP)
Eagles: Hayakawa
Baystars: Taisei Irie (Meiji RHP)
Seibu: Hayakawa
Hanshin: Satoh
Chiba Lotte: Hayakawa
Dragons: Hiroto Takahashi (Chukyodai HS RHP)
Hawks: Satoh
Giants: Satoh
First lottery is for Satoh, and Hanshin wins.
Second lottery is for Hayakawa, and Rakuten wins.
Consolation picks (for the Hayakawa and Satoh lottery losers):
Orix: Junpeita Yamashita (Fukuoka Ohhori HS P)
Yakult: Shota Suzuki (Hosei Univ P)
Seibu: Kento Watanabe (Toin Yokohama Univ IF)
Lotte: Suzuki
Hawks: Tomoya Inoue (Hanasaki Tokuharu HS OF)
Giants: Ryuta Heinai (Asia Univ P)
And the Suzuki lottery goes to... Chiba Lotte!
Yakult gets to make a 1st-round pick that nobody can challenge and they take... Naofumi Kizawa from Keio! That's exciting, I've seen him pitch quite a bit recently.
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