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Originally Posted by Kovaz
Here's what I don't understand: why not just do the whole draft lottery today? Why the need to get half of it done early with placeholder teams?
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It was a mistake for sure.
Because what it did was change the value of those draft picks BEFORE it had been determined who owned them.
Spots 9-15 (or whatever these teams owned) each held a 1-2% chance of winning the lottery - nothing to affect their position in the play-ins. However, once the partial lottery was held, it changed those picks to having a 12.5% chance of a 1st overall - substantially increasing the value of those picks.
It is unlikely that it changed the behavior of any of the teams, however, it should never have happened in the first place.
The entire draft should be happening NOW, now that we know who all the participants are.
Really bizarre and incomprehensible why the league would have done it this way.