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Originally Posted by IgiTang
Can someone please clarify for me how the actual lottery system works? Let me explain my confusion.
Listening to Jets Lunch, Jonas Siegel of the Canadian press says there are over a thousand balls and toronto had 200 of them giving the leafs a 20% chance.
Boston only had 10 balls.
The lottery order starts from 14 and Boston is picked right away.
How is that possible when Boston had less than 1% of the balls in the bin.
Would it not have increased the odds that Toronto would have been selected to pick #14 based on odds?
I'm even more confused now than ever about the lottery.
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There are 14 balls numbered 1-14. That gives you 1000 combinations of 4 balls. The Bruins had 10 combinations.
They draw #1 first behind the scenes by pulling 4 balls and that combination will correspond to one team (It was the Leafs)
They then draw #2 behind the scenes by pulling 4 balls and assuming they didn't pull another TOR combination (which would force a redraw) then that draw was WPG
They tend draw #3 behind the scenes by pulling 4 balls and assuming they didn't pull another TOR or WPG combination (which would force a redraw) then that draw was CBJ
They then put the cards in order and move to the TV set where they reveal the cards in reverse order.
So you didn't actually see the draft lottery take place, that behind the scenes video will be released soon I would imagine. Here's the video for last year if you're curious, only change was that they had to do the draw 3 times.
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=810726