^^ thanks for the explanation. I never really got it before.
It could help one problem I've always had with the lottery which is the linear odds that don't relate to anything really.
This year there will be 5 teams clearly at the bottom. Other than buffalo there is nothing to choose between them in degrees of suck. A post here, a shoutout there, separates 29-26. So it makes no sense that the 29th team would have a helluva bigger chance at the lotto than the 26th., and could finish 1-2 or maybe 3, while the 26th team has only an outside shot at 1, and will likely get 5 or 6.
If this were the norm over the last 5 years, then it really wouldn't matter where the flames, panthers, soilers, iles, and sabres finish, they'd all have a pretty equal shot at the lottery balls and picks 1-6 (I know not exactly given only 3 balls).
It might skew a team that has an unusually good or bad year for their position, but to me that's still more fair overall then the current system for setting the odds.
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