I don't really like using potential points. The problem with the worst teams is generally that they don't have studs, and just have a bunch on inconsistent players. It is in effect penalizing a team for not starting Antone Smith (or a similar player) when he had one of his unpredictable weeks. Also, teams with full rosters of healthy players (versus IR players) have a greater chance to guess wrong on a given week.
But the point is to give the worst team the best pick. What other way do you have to prevent tanking while giving the team with the worst roster the top pick? I mean you could go with just have the commish force players into rosters that he believes are the best starts to prevent tanking, but then it's just in the eyes of the commish and if I had a bad team and a commish did that, I'd just leave the league.In dynasty, not starting Antone Smith the week he randomly scores is not a hinderance. In the long term, he will see more touches and have more scoring opportunities which is what you want out of fliers. plus were talking about a guy who will be a starter for your team maybe twice a year by a couple of points. This will happen on every single team. This exact process happens for every team so it's completely fair INO
For other ways to prevent tanking, why not just a have a Code of Conduct that kicks people out? If this guy in the OP is actively talking about starting a non-optimal lineup so as to get the #1 pick, he'd be kicked out of all of my dynasty leagues.
And then you have a hole in your league, with a team that sucks. But ok let's go down that road and let's say you kick the tanker out:
1: what do you do with the pick? Does the team still get the first pick, thus upsetting the rest of the league because he tanked? If he doesn't which pick do you stick the abandoned team with to attempt to rebuild an already failing roster? 2nd? 6th? 12th?
2: what's the selling point to someone else to take the spot? If it's a local league you have to have someone interested in a dynasty league with your scoring that wants to take over a team at that price. If it's an Internet born league, good luck. This kind of thing is what breaks up dynasty leagues. In many cases you have to float someone half or a full years dues to take over a dumpster fire roster.
3: if you find someone who is willing to take over the team, the league has to be one where getting out of the ####ter is possible within a year, maybe 2 or that guys not staying either. Who takes over crappy rosters long term if league mates are unwilling to trade? If rosters are so deep that waivers are empty of all takent?
Wouldn't it be much easier to have something in place that actually prevents tanking that everyone agrees with on startup I stead of punishing after the fact? If it's a casual league with work buddies or your family, sure just do a no tanking thing. For everything else putting in something like best ball for seeding makes sense.over the course of a year the random weeks where an unknown bench dude scores 25 and would be a starter will come close to evening out for everyone anyways