Expansion Draft

Expansion Draft is a term from the U.S. Sports and refers to the process of the league increase. This is done either by opening new franchises or by the inclusion of teams from other leagues. One way to fill the new teams with players of the expansion draft. The new teams are also known as expansion teams. This procedure, there are almost exclusively in the North American sports leagues. There are various ways to carry out this method. Basically, this is done like this:

Each existing team in the league can "protect" a certain number of his players by putting them to report to a specific date in the league. The expansion team may now " unprotected " players choose for their team. This is similar to the Entry Draft. There is a limit on how many players you must commit by a team. The teams that lose players through the expansion draft, obtained from the expansion teams compensation, for example in the form of future draft picks.

Of course, report the teams, the players lose in order to keep all of their important players in the league on the team. This means that the expansion teams often select players who are older, more frequently injured, could not enforce or collect such a high level that they would like to get from the payroll. For these reasons, expansion teams usually not competitive in their first few years.

Many new teams try out the players of the expansion draft to form a team and integrate talent. Sometimes it even happens that players who have been released from their old team for the expansion draft, are in the new environment of an expansion team to stardom.

A similar process takes place when a franchise is dissolved and its players will be divided among the remaining teams. This process is called Dispersal Draft.