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A (sports) draft is the process by which professional sports teams select players not contracted to any team, often from colleges or amateur ranks. Baseball, American football, basketball, ice hockey, and some other predominantly North American sports utilize a draft system. The system is virtually unknown to European association football (soccer), where most professional clubs develop young players through their youth teams. Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ...
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The National Football League's draft, which began in 1936, is probably the best known. Draft order in the NFL is determined in a reverse-record order (the previous season's worst team picking first, the Super Bowl winner picking last). Trading draft choices between teams is common practice. The NFL draft is an annual event in which National Football League franchises take turns selecting amateur football players and other first-time eligible players. ...
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The Major League Soccer draft is similar to the National Football League one. MLS logo Major League Soccer (MLS) is the top soccer league in the United States in the American Soccer Pyramid, sanctioned by the professional division of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF or U.S. Soccer), a member of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). ...
NFL logo The National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most popular professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. ...
The National Basketball Association and National Hockey League use draft systems similar to that of the NFL; however, these leagues conduct a draft lottery whereby the first several draft positions are ordered by random selection. This is designed to deter teams from deliberately playing poorly toward the end of a season in order to obtain a higher draft position. NBA logo, depicting former star Jerry West The National Basketball Association, more popularly known as simply the NBA, is the worlds premier mens professional basketball league and one of the major professional sports leagues of North America. ...
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The Major League Baseball draft order is determined by a team's league (American or National), with the two leagues alternating picks, and then in reverse order of previous year's record within each league. From year to year, the leagues alternate which gets the first pick. For instance, in an odd-numbered year, the AL team with the worst record would pick first, followed by the NL team with the worst record. The following year, the NL team with the worst record would pick first, followed by the AL team with the worst record. MLB logo Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ...
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The Baseball draft is not nearly as reliable in terms of predicting player skill or prominence at the major league level as the other drafts. Players are drafted young, in comparison to the actual major leaguers. Unlike basketball or hockey, very few teenagers or twenty year-olds play in the majors. Instead, baseball utilizes a complex minor league system for their young draftees. Teams have four levels of minor league teams (Rookie, A, AA, and AAA, in ascending order of skill) into which a draftee arrives and is evaluated for promotion to the majors based on his performance in the minors, as well as other factors such as "signability" and other intangibles. Since players are often picked on potential and less on current ability, the first pick of the draft is not guaranteed to ever make the majors. In basketball and football, the top pick is all but assured a roster spot, and may times penciled in as a starter for that season or the next. This is not to say that the top pick of the baseball draft will not blossom into a star; Alex Rodriguez, Chipper Jones and Ken Griffey, Jr. were all top picks and each has won an MVP award. Alex Rodriguez taking his position at 3rd base at the beginning of a new inning Alexander Emanuel Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975 in New York City), nicknamed A-Rod, is widely regarded as one of the best players in Major League Baseball today and at a young age is already...
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Fans often pay close attention to the draft selections made by teams they support, sometimes conducting their own mock drafts.
Other related forms of drafts are the expansion draft, in which a new team is allowed to pick a certain number of players from those of teams already in the league, and the dispersal draft, in which players contracted to a now-defunct team are allocated among the remaining ones. An Expansion Draft, in North American professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to offer a new franchise or franchises. ...
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