I disagree with MCMXC opinion on "all my season depended on getting the draft list one week earlier", but this is not what he saying.
His main problem is that if the draft is good, he can keep tanking and keep his first choice in the draft. If the draft is bad, no luck for the opposition, he will recruit and start to win games and they will demote instead of him.
He cannot determine "the draft is good" without spending the points. It doesn't matter whether he spends the points now or in a week. He has to spend the points to find out the draft is good or bad and he cannot unspend them.
It doesn't affect his
draft decision in the sense that it doesn't get any spent draft points returned to him. Yes I can see that it affects his decision to
tank, and I don't mean to be controversial but to be honest that is not a decision I respect anyway. In fact, if delaying the draft punishes tankers but not managers playing the game legit, that sounds like a good idea to me. Aren't people always looking for ways to curb tanking?