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RonCo · 11-11-2015, 02:22 PM

The question of ethics has to do with the intent you go into it with. The players union supports the draft for various reasons, but I think if a team openly entered into a real draft saying "we're going to take three guys we absolutely have no intention of signing, and purposefully make them sit on the sidelines for an entire year without getting paid" you would find lots of interesting legal wrangling between the commissioners office and the player's union.

The practice in question does not break a rule, and in a computer game it makes "no difference," but as a real life exercise it is clearly on shady grounds as far as personal ethics goes.

11-11-2015, 02:22 PM	#9
RonCo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 10,294	The question of ethics has to do with the intent you go into it with. The players union supports the draft for various reasons, but I think if a team openly entered into a real draft saying "we're going to take three guys we absolutely have no intention of signing, and purposefully make them sit on the sidelines for an entire year without getting paid" you would find lots of interesting legal wrangling between the commissioners office and the player's union. The practice in question does not break a rule, and in a computer game it makes "no difference," but as a real life exercise it is clearly on shady grounds as far as personal ethics goes. Last edited by RonCo; 11-11-2015 at 04:41 PM.