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NEWSBerman speaks of future of NWSL draft updates on local broadcasts, and moreby Dan LaulettaJanuary 12, 2024
Photo Copyright Kirby Lee for USA TODAY Sports
The college draft has long been one of the marquee events on the National Women’s Soccer League calendar. But times are changing. In the years since the league changed the rules that required American players to use up their college eligibility players like Jaedyn Shaw and Alyssa Thompson have gone directly to the NWSL as teenagers and become stars. That combined with a more robust international market for clubs has combined to reduce the impact of the draft.

“What we’ve learned and observed probably over the last year or so is that there has been a leveling up of the games globally that is serving as a forcing function for us to recognize that we compete in a global landscape for talent,” commissioner Jessica Berman said Friday during her annual draft-day chat with media. “With that comes a lot of analysis about our approach and our policies and the best ways that we can compete for that talent.”

With that answer, Berman did not address the direct question of whether the league was considering alternatives that might replace the draft entirely before the end of the decade. It also did not indicate support for the draft as a permanent tentpole for the league.

“It’s been established internally and validated by our board that it is our stated vision to be the best league in the world. And we’ll continue to evaluate the ways in which we can compete and work closely with our Players Association to asses all of the mechanisms and levers that we can pull to both embrace and lean into the areas where we are different and have differentiators; parity, competitive balance, investment, and all those areas as well as think strategically about shifts that we may want to make in the future that allow for us to compete in more meaningful ways.”

In the short term, there does appear to be investment from the clubs in terms of the draft. Half of this year’s 14 1st Round picks were traded including the No. 5 pick moving twice. The No. 10 pick fetched a remarkable $175,000 in allocation money.

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Berman also addressed the future of youth academies, a mechanism that helped spawn exponential growth for Major League Soccer in recent years. Currently, teams are free to sign youth players but there is no direct line to an NWSL through an academy. MLS, which is in many more cities than NWSL has a home-grown rule that allows clubs to retain players who come up through their youth system.

“It is one of the areas we really hope to make progress on in 2024 as we chart our strategic initiatives. There are a bunch of clubs that are very interested in figuring out the most strategic ways to build academies or invest in youth.[/quote]

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