Throughout the last 100 years, collegiate and amateur recruitment have become synonymous with professionals across North America. With basketball, football, baseball and hockey making up the top four professional leagues in the USA, they have all relied on a similar player acquisition tool: the amateur draft.
The draft is simple. Amateur athletes have their rights selected by professional clubs in hopes of making it big time one day. Although drafts are important, sports are a global phenomenon and not are all set up to work within the draft’s formats.
For the “Big 4,” each sport has its world top tier in the US, allowing themselves to create a monopoly on the world’s availability of top players.