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DEEP cut on tanking and all the systemic issues that won't be fixed with a massive overhaul of the draft. Very thoughtful on big market/small market imbalance and the dangers of targeting "tanking" as a huge problem

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Wheeling up the only part of the system that actually seems to favor the disadvantaged parties while leaving the rest untouched is pretty much a joke.

Considering tanking as part of the whole instead of an isolated problem allows us to see that removing the perceived "reward" for poor performance doesn't fix the system or balance it out. It all but engraves the already-existing imbalance in stone. All the reasons a team would want to tank--the ills of the environment--would be even worse in post-Wheel world. You got rid of the weed but poisoned the orchard. You'd get rid of tanking without touching any of the reasons people tank to begin with.

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