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Ok, we have all had our fill of tanking have we not? The answer to stop tanking for picks is not a weighted lottery - it will just result in teams posiitoning for a better 'chance' of a better pick and won't stop tanking. I have a straightforward way to incentivise being competitive in the games in which a team is ineligible to make the finals. I call it the The Competitive Percentage Determinator. Once a team is mathematically no chance to make the finals - their percentage is recorded. When the season is finished the teams will be ranked from highest relative percentage increase to lowest, and the team that has increased it's percentage the most will be awarded the top pick. The increase in percentage is relative, so poor teams that get slighlty better but still lose are not put out by having wins and losses determine picks. Essentially: Team A 60% increases to 63.5%. Relative increase of 5.83%. Team B 100% increases to 105%. Relative increase of 5% Team A gets the better pick. The results for 2012 would have seen the Lions rewarded for their competitiveness at the end of the season when the 'season was lost' by giving them Pick 2, and it would have punished the Bulldogs for blatantly letting the arse fall out of their season by giving them Pick 10. 2012 1. GWS +10% 2. BL +6.9% 3. Melb +5.1% 4. GC +3.7% 5. Rich +1.3% 6. St K -0.3% 7. Carl -1.2% 8. Ess -1.7% 9. PA -2.3% 10.WB -5.8% (The increase is relative to the percentage when finals become mathematically impossible. Eg. GWS went from 42 to 46.2: an increase of 10%) There is an element of luck when it comes to this; if a team plays a far better team during this run they will be worse off. But I feel it will give the team (and those selecting the team) something to play for, and keep in mind that the lowest pick they will recieve is still a top 10 pick. Thoughts?