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Old 09-30-2013, 04:49 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange View Post
That's not a very weighted system. The NBA did it that way originally, but subsequently changed so that the worst team has a specified best chance in the lottery (25%), the second-to-worst team the next best specified chance in the lottery (19.9%), and so on. The non-playoff qualifier with the best record has just a 0.5% chance of winning the lottery. See the Wikipedia entry on the NBA draft lottery.
You could easily do something similar with the custom option on that site.
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