It’s a ghoulish business, this, the parceling off of a roster from a folded team. But players need a place to play, and short of actually setting a reasonable deadline for ownership negotiations that would have given people proper time to find a job, the league has done its best to incentivize teams to draft players with relaxed rules around salary caps and roster limits for those drafted.
The Washington Spirit shuffled the initial draft order when they traded Sky Blue FC for the top pick in the dispersal draft in exchange for their #2 pick, as well as a first round pick in the 2019 college draft.