Draft‑credit auctions to stop tanking

Give every team a fixed pool of tradable 'draft credits' and auction individual draft slots; teams can bid, trade, roll over credits, and teams that advance farther in the playoffs lose credits to preserve competitive balance. The auction replaces a fixed draft order and turns draft position into a market good, aligning incentives away from deliberate losing. — If adopted, this market design could reshape how leagues allocate scarce positional advantages and offers a transferable template for using tradable rights to resolve institutional perverse incentives.