The SPFL Expansion Draft 2021/22
The SPFL Expansion Draft 2021/22 Imagine combining two of the most convoluted topics in sports - league reconstruction in Scottish football and the draft system commonly found in the US for basketball, ice hockey, and so forth - to create an article which has the potential to be so complicated that nobody, not even myself as the author, can begin to understand it. Luckily, dear reader, this is what you are signing up to if you read beyond this little introduction. The American National Hockey League (NHL) recently created a brand-new franchise - the Seattle Kraken - from scratch to take the league from 31 to 32 teams. The Athletic decided to use this real life innovation to conjure up an entirely fictional scenario where the rules implemented in the NHL draft were applied to magic up an entire squad for a new English Premier League outfit. Think back to the summer months of 2020, when Hearts, Partick Thistle, and Stranraer were ...