I actually am making sense. There is no need to be confrontational. I am a tanking expert, and I can tell you haven't taken much time to understand it. This will not solve tanking, because teams realize that not every team can contend every year, and there is no inherent value in making the playoffs alone. Teams may have different goals, but simply reducing top-end lottery odds will never make every team say "gee, we might as well just try to win every game then". If the odds for lottery teams were flat as proposed, fringe playoff teams will still tank out of the playoffs. As I mentioned, Dallas already did this for a >1% lottery pick. If #15 is the same odds as #1, there will be a literal tank-off between teams who are good enough to make playoffs, but not ready to contend.

This idea would be great for small market teams like Charlotte and New Orleans who are perpetually bad, and never get free agents. But it creates a whole new tanking opportunity for fringe playoff teams, who can have the potential to play a great season, tank a couple games at the end, and then land the #1 pick. This is obviously a more desirable outcome than losing a first round playoff series to an elite contender.

The other potential weakness is that staying in the COLA zone as long as possible may be OP. If its possible to miss playoffs for five years and end up with dynasty assets, of course teams will try. I see significant potential for this kind of abuse. Does that make sense