Draft & Lottery

Draft Order

Draft order is split into a set of two positions.  The top-4 teams from the prior season will always pick in the final 4 draft positions:

All remaining teams outside of the top 4 are eligible for the draft lottery, placed by regular season standings unless modified by consolation bracket.

Draft Lottery

All remaining teams outisde of the top-4 playoff standings are eligible for draft lottery and entered into a lottery machine to award the top 3 picks.  Last place, though highly favored, is not guaranteed to win the lottery due to weighting + consolation bracket modification. 

Weighting is determined by the chart below:

Expansion Team Lottery Implications

The lottery will consider a team as an Expansion team if they meet one of the following requirements:

• A newly created team with no existing roster (e.g., league manager expansion/addition)
• An existing team has been abandoned by a less-than-qualified (e.g., evicted from league) manager so much so that a replacement team is required for the new player to be competitive.

In either case, an expansion team will receive 7 draft lottery balls (slotting them between 9th and 10th place, the exact middle of the lottery-eligible teams).

The lottery does NOT consider a team as an expansion team if a manager is simply taking over an existing team.  In this case, the manager taking over said team assumes the existing draft implications for this team.  See additional information about Expansion teams in the "Teams" section.