Should the Drafter with the highest rating have to have a Final Draft, so that they can’t wait for other players to finalize their draft before trying for a scam while they haven’t finalized their own?

It probably doesn’t matter – if you would be the winner under this proposal, then you could become the winner under the revised version simply by finalising at the point where you’d win.

As such, not needing to finalise is probably better because it reduces the need to do timing snipes.

I feel like the idea has merit, but in its current form no one would ever make their draft final unless a) they have a higher review score the current leader or b) they are throwing to the current leader

So being the first to go final, you’re basically stuck having to convince everyone else to throw to you. And if you do get a majority to throw to you, that’ll probably annoy enough of the game that I don’t think it’ll be a great result

This also would allow a new player to swoop in, break a tie at the end just by getting a single highly rated draft

I can see an argument that there should be some artificial reduction in score for Drafters who don’t have many reviews, to solve the “swooping in” problem.

Clucky is right about the “players won’t finalise unless they’re winning” problem, though – this proposal in its current state wouldn’t be able to end the dynasty unless players choose to give up on trying to win this dynasty because they’re excited for the next one. I think several players would make that choice, but maybe not enough for the victory condition to function.

(I forgot to vote: it’s )

Per Clucky, particularly the swoop.