Just curious what posters think about this.
Often a point of contention between the pro-tanking and anti-tanking crowd revolves around the feasibility of building a team through the draft. The anti-tanking crowd almost always refers to the draft as a crap shoot and stresses that success through youth is far from a guaranteed formula.
So I ask that crowd, has the alternative to winning a championship -- signing and trading for big names, sometimes at the expense of future prospects and financial flexibility -- been proven to be a less risky method to building a championship team? Don't just consider the odds of landing one of these players, take into account the odds of implementing that player into the team and maximizing the team's talent (just as you would take into account the odds of the draftee reaching his ceiling, not just the odds of landing him as a prospect).