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I'm strongly advocating for another rule change for 2024.
The penalty for a post-draft trade down is changed at least to 25% instead of 35%.
I understand that we should be penalized because we get the benefit of hindsight, but right now we lose the value of a very high 3rd round pick trading down out of the bottom of the 1st (approximately pick #72). That means a trade down from 31 puts us at pick #48. A change to 25% would instead put us at a loss in value of a lower 3rd-round pick (approximately pick #87) and would mean a trade down from 31 puts us at pick #42.
This would at least allow us to trade down to the middle of round 2 (say pick 48) and pick up a 4th with it. This is far more reasonable than the current situation where we'd have to drop from R1 to the bottom of 2 in order to pick up any other pick as compensation for the trade-out.
I'd be more in favor of 20% but that might be pushing my luck.
Under the current format, a trade-down is so out of the realm of reality that it makes it moot.
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