I get your point, and agree it is crazy, BUT one flaw in your argument. 20% discount on all FS selections, if I am not mistaken, which is possible!lets for arguments sake say Spargo's kid can come to us next year as FS, and we have just won the flag and sit 18th
our picks are 18, 36, 54,72
Hawthorn that finished last (after Carlisle's flogness infected all his team mates), nominate Spargo with pick 1,
we need to find 3000 points
18 — 985
+
36 — 502 = 1483
+
54 — 220 = 1703
+
72 — 019 = 1722
we would need to trade in 1278 points
that is
pick 12
or
picks 29 and 30
you could do this by trading out players for picks, the killer is your draft starts at the end of the draft, Spargo would have to be better then Carey to make it worth doing.
I am not sure if you can trade future pick for picks this year to get the points?
the other interesting bit is you are getting 1 player and four picks are disappearing out of the draft so all third round picks and higher in this example would move down in order.
I think I have this right.