Draft or choosing teams

When I was in a draft league (Bronx Warriors) we had the same problem but did nothing about it, because nothing reasonable could be done. Nothing we could do about players sandbagging the evaluations either. So evaluations often were not taken seriously in the draft. There were also late registrants assigned to teams in order of registration, which seems it could also be rigged but not easily. Also twin or within-1-year-in-age players had to be taken together, and we had weird situations in which relatives coached on the same or a different team, and had players who were family.

The club (which was also the league) tried when possible to keep teams together with held-over players who stayed in their division 2 years, and figured the order of the following season's draft based on their standings. Sometimes there were dispersal drafts, in which one team was dissolved and had all its players thrown into the draft pool, and sometimes expansion drafts, from which existing teams could protect only so many players.

Overall, though, results seemed pretty good. Some coaches just drafted lousy. But some were bad at coaching too.