Talk:Draft (sports)

message: Starting in 2005, MLB will not consider league when ranking teams from the draft:
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/draftday/rules.jsp
I think us Brits will never understand this system. What motivation is there for clubs to train players up if they just get "drafted" into another team? Shouldn't a player have the opportunity to play for the team he has supported all his life (and live in the city he has been brought up in)?
:There is no motivation to train up players in the European sense, which is why they don't do it. --SodiumBenzoate 19:00, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Take into account that the sports are different. Soccer has less physical/body type prerequisites compared to draft sports in N.America and Australiasia. You'd have to wait for a player to be fully developed (~19-21) to see is his physique may be suitable to recieve further training to play professionally. -- Htra0497 (talk) 04:37, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I've redone the page in a way that hopefully should address some of these concerns. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 02:29, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: As there are draft busts, there are also draft steals, their diametral opposites. However, I only know of a few NHL draft steals, so I ask some of you to add draft steals in NFL or NBA.Xiaoshan Math (talk) 02:44, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If this page is going to have a list of draft steals, it has to be done with citations such as with the draft busts. Otherwise it will just be a list of peoples' opinions.--Henry talk 17:20, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Draft steal

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message: Ryan Leaf was selected second, Manning was selected first. That's a wrong example of a draft bust.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.180.110.166 (talk) 13:11, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
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message: The paragraph in the lead section of which I just deleted about half begins with an observation that drafts are uncommon outside the U.S. and Canada. The part that I deleted seemed to be designed to argue that drafts prevent teams in lower leagues from making it into the top flight—but the leagues in the U.S. and Canada that hold drafts don't have systems of promotion and relegation with lower leagues the way most soccer leagues do elsewhere; so the argument makes no sense whatsoever. Skiasaurus (/ˌskiːəˈsɔːrəs/) 18:36, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
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message: Although Snake Drafts and Auction drafts are mentioned in other Wikipedia articles, there is no mention of them here. Anyone interested in updating this article might think about including a section that defines the various types of drafts, rather than only mentioning certain types of drafts in the lead section. Thanks for considering this request. OvertAnalyzer (talk) 01:12, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snake and Auction drafts 

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message: I’m not a sports fan so please be kind. The article has to meet the information needs of people like me as well as those who are thoroughly familiar with the subject. 
The draft mechanism is intended to be fair to teams, but is it fair to players? The article says:
“Drafts are usually permitted under antitrust or restraint of trade laws because they are included in collective bargaining agreements between leagues and labor unions representing players.”
Could this be clarified? What if a player is keen for the game but simply doesn’t want to play for that team? There could be many reasons. Is it a “closed shop“ in which a player can only play by being a member of the union which tells players who they will play for? What if a player refuses? Are they then not allowed to play their sport? Can some examples be described? Has the anti-trust issue been dealt with in countries other than the United States? Humphrey Tribble (talk) 06:59, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: if they dont sign they just go into free agency Flooders (talk) 15:42, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What if a player doesn’t want to play for that team?