Dispersal Draft
A dispersal draft is a process in professional sport that involves signing players whose previous team has been disbanded, merged with another, or ceased to exist for some other reason. Since most of the drafts are held in North America, dispersal drafts are almost exclusively there. Since no teams have been dissolved in the major sports leagues for a long time, it is often the emerging sports in the USA and Canada in which teams have to be dissolved due to financial problems.
Examples
- In the Canadian Football League , a dispersal draft took place in 2006 to distribute the Ottawa Renegades players to the CFL teams.
- In 2002 in the MLS soccer league , after the Tampa Bay Mutiny and the Miami merger were dissolved .
- The women's basketball league WNBA has carried out such drafts several times. The Cleveland Rockers z. B. were dissolved in 2003 after the owners of the team declared that they no longer wanted to fund the team. The WNBA did not find an owner for the team, which is why the players could be drafted by the other teams in the league.
- The National Hockey League carried out a dispersal draft in 1978 and 1991 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 51 players selected in Dispersal Draft. In: oursportscentral.com. April 12, 2006, accessed November 16, 2017 .
- ↑ SPORTS BRIEFING - PRO BASKETBALL; WNBA Dispersal Draft. In: nytimes.com. December 5, 2008, accessed November 16, 2017 .
- ↑ PLUS: WNBA; Dispersal Draft Scatters 2 Rosters. In: nytimes.com. April 25, 2003, accessed November 16, 2017 .
- ^ Expansion Like It's 1991. In: nhl.com. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .