NBA Proposing New Lottery System To Balance Odds

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:realgm
 

 

NBA Proposing New Lottery System To Balance Odds
 

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The NBA submitted an official proposal to reform the lottery system, dismissing the Wheel idea in favor a revised weighting system that shifts each team's odds of getting the top pick.
 
The proposal is essentially an attempt to squeeze the lottery odds at either extreme toward a more balanced system in which all 14 teams have a relatively similar chance at the no. 1 pick, per sources familiar with the proposal.
 
The new proposal will give at least the four worst teams the same odds of winning the no. 1 pick, approximately 11 percent for each club. The odds decline slowly from there.
 
The proposal also calls for the drawing of the first six picks via the Ping-Pong ball lottery, sources say.

 

 

[Pugz]

just get rid of the whole lottery, damn.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

And replace it with what?

 

[Pugz]

worst record and so forth.

 

[Pugz]

i dont think it's rigged, fwiw, just don't like the lottery at all. maybe do the too three worst records in a lottery, but the rest should go according to record.

 

[Thomas-Panda-Saxby]

I like it, possibly gets rid of the tanking

 

[buzzy]

i dont think it's rigged, fwiw, just don't like the lottery at all. maybe do the too three worst records in a lottery, but the rest should go according to record.

That's basically how it goes already. Not in terms of three worst teams, but three best picks.

I'm probably in the minority but I think the lottery is fine as it is. We just had a couple of big coincidences in the last years.

 

[elcheato]

People complaining about the Cavs jumping from #9, and now Silver wants to make that kinda of jump even more likely?

 

[RipCity32]

This would've been nice that last 4 years.