05-02-2023, 11:48 AMZerg Wrote: Piggybacking off this - tampering has such tough punishments specifically because it's so hard to undo. Once the player wants to go to the tampering team it's not good for the tampered team to force that user to stay.

What if we did something like, instead of forfeiting draft picks flat out, the offending team forfeits their picks to the tampered team in addition to whatever was agreed upon in the trade as direct compensation?

That idea was certainly floated.

However, it assumes that there was already some sort of trade agreed upon, which isn’t necessarily the case in instances of tampering. Additionally, trades made under the conditions of tampering wouldn’t have been negotiated in good faith. So adding a 1st and a 2nd onto whatever sounds good, because it objectively is valuable, but it’s being added onto some highly variable base that doesn’t even necessarily exist.

Additionally, you can bet that the 18 teams that aren’t involved would be upset that their draft picks don’t move up a spot or two in the draft