According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, the NFL should adopt the QFL’s auction system for their rookie draft.Â
Three researchers at Harvard Business School—who studied under Alvin Roth, a Harvard professor and a pioneer in market-design theory—have proposed an alternative to the NFL draft.Under their plan, all 32 teams would be given seven picks. They would have to abide by a spending cap that would go higher to lower—with the worst team (based on its record the previous season) having the most money to spend. When the bidding opened, the most sought-after players would draw multiple bids. Teams could then raise their bid as high as they’d like for a player they coveted.Theoretically, a team could get any player it wanted—so long as it was prepared to pinch pennies on everyone else. Meanwhile, a team that didn’t want to break the bank on any particular player could pick up lots of useful parts by spreading its money around evenly. Teams could also thrive by focusing on the bidding and looking for bargains.
As one influential QFL owner put it;
NFL Draft going to an auction draft. Makes a whole lot of sense. Overinflated rookie salaries, gone. Teams over spending on players, gone. Player holdouts, gone. True worth, found.
Going public with QFL School Fantasy Football I thought it would be other fantasy football league’s that adopted our rule system, not the big one itself.
Shades