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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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Better way to set this up is that the second a team is mathematically eliminated any further points gained (2 for a win, 1 for an OT/SO L) also count towards draft position. Highest draft points at the end of the year gets highest lottery spot. Bad teams who are eliminated first and have more games to try and gain points. I like it because this system rewards winning even when you are out of the playoffs. That being said, there’s nothing stopping a team from losing the first 30 games then turning it on in the last half of the season. But doing so is incredibly obvious and could be prevented by implement some safe guard or penalty for doing so.