ShinSoccer
10 Jul 2004, 09:35 PM
could someone please explain to me how the expansion draft works and what its all about?... and are any players protected from being drafted by the expansion teams?
gherter
10 Jul 2004, 11:11 PM
could someone please explain to me how the expansion draft works and what its all about?... and are any players protected from being drafted by the expansion teams?
Well, usually teams are allowed to protect a couple (or maybe three) of franchise players, like DCU might protect Eskandarian and Adu maybe (or whoever). I would also expect that the new teams would not be allowed to pick more than so many from the same team, maybe 3 per team. That way, no one would lose more than 3 players. That would give them 15 solid players each. Since they would also get the first two draft picks, they would get the #1 and #2 picks, plus the #13 and #14 and so on. That should be enough. Hopefully, the league will be generous with them so that they can start off at least in the middle of the pack. The first few years will be important for these clubs.