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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Better solution is something like this:
- Bottom 10 teams qualify for the draft top 10 picks of the lottery
- As soon as a team is eliminated their point % at that point is used to set reverse standings
- The team with the highest winning %, after their elimination point, gets the #1 pick. And so on.
There are things to work out, such as it doesn't account for different strengths of schedules post elimination.
However I like the concept because you reward winning down the stretch.
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I wouldn't worry too much about strength of schedule in amy model since the schedules are uneven anyway and the NHL doesn't seem to mind.
For me, with a model like you propose, I think it shuffles the tanking around. Surely the teams that are sitting just outside of the bottom ten will make an effort to lose their way in rather than risk getting forced up the standings into dreaded 16oa territory.
Maybe there are some tweaks that could help out. Nothing comes to mind atm.