Sentence examples for competitive draft from inspiring English sources

He was selected fourth overall by the Toronto Raptors in a very competitive draft class that included multiple future NBA superstars such as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Carmelo Anthony.

In our study, we demonstrate that modern whole-genome shotgun sequencing and assembly methods can provide competitive draft genome assemblies at the multi-Gb scale for downstream biological studies in a cost-effective way, even if it is far from producing chromosome level contiguous sequence.

The worst eight teams in baseball would be able to select players from the top eight in a new "competitive balance draft" proposed by Commissioner Bud Selig.

Baseball is considering a competitive balance draft, in which the worst eight teams would be able to select players from the upper echelon teams.

While endorsing the competitive balance draft, the agent Scott Boras was critical of other proposals "If we're interested in players completing college, we should not allow them to be drafted out of high school, except for maybe one first-round player per club," he said.

The Pirates also could gain an extra selection from baseball's first competitive balance draft, which will be held Wednesday in Secaucus, N.J. "We may be looking at three of the top 45 picks in the country," Pirates General Manager Neal Huntington said.

Officials of some clubs have questioned the value of the competitive-balance draft, one calling it fundamentally flawed, another said it rewards incompetence.

The competitive-balance draft would allow the eight teams with the worst won-lost records over a three-year period to draft one player each from the eight teams with the best records in the same period (each team could protect 25 players from its organization).

The owners have proposed a competitive-balance draft in which the eight teams with the worst records would each select one player from the pool of players eligible for the draft of unprotected minor leaguers from the teams that participated in the postseason.

As a vehicle to promote competitive balance, the draft is severely flawed; small-market clubs routinely pass over top players because of their bonus demands.

But as NFL defenses do what they can to close the competitive gap, their draft-night prizes will be the defensive linemen.