Because I have nothing better to do. Tell me what you think about this idea:
The actual implementation of the draft lottery itself (the amount of "ping pong balls" distributed and the way the are drawn) would work the same way, but the way we determine the slots for the lottery would.
The selection of the Lottery Slots would take place in a separate raffle. The bottom 5 teams would receive a number of "raffle tickets" equal to the amount of wins they finish with. Those raffle tickets would then be used to determine the slot for the Draft Lottery for the top 5 lottery positions. The lottery would then go as usual. We could do a separate raffle to determine Lottery Positions 6-10 as well.
Picks that have been traded would exempt from this part of the process and fall into their natural slot.
This incentivizes competition throughout all tiers of the standings, while still guaranteeing the lower teams an advantage in the lottery.
Last year that would have amounted to this break down in "raffle tickets" to determine who received the first slot for the draft lottery:
TEAM - WINS - % Jazz - 25 - 23.4% Celts - 25 - 23.4% Magic - 23 - 21.5% Sixers - 19 - 17.8% Bucks - 15 - 14.0%
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