Mlotek
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1. If the last place team owns pick 4 and so on multiple teams would own the same pick.
2. NIt sure what you’re saying here.
3. Playoffs are a series of games where the winner moves on to continue pursuing the championship and the loser goes home. Having had that opportunity they no longer are eligible for the draft lottery. Playins=playoffs, but with draft lottery eligibility, which is stupid.
4. the Pittsburgh Penguins could have theoretically been a 100+ point team. They are in the running for the best u18 player in the world.
number 4 is all that matters
1. Yes Armchair, technically until the lottery 3 teams would own pick #15. However, that is the worst position they would be drafting until lottery determined the actual order. 2 of those teams would 'move up' in the draft. There is no 'dropping'
2. Placeholders had same odds that teams 8-15 would win the lottery.
3. It may be stupid, however, that is how the league devised the rules. They chose to keep the playoffs limited to 16 teams.
Again, how do you make it fair to the teams that had a chance to make the playoffs?
It also doesn't affect the lottery odds of the bottom 7.
Keep in mind that the regular season is a series of games. Where the teams with most points qualify for the playoffs and the teams on bottom go home. I know that's not what you mean by the bold. Just making a counter argument based on the chosen words.
4. Pittsburgh theoretically could have missed the playoffs as well. They also lost 7 of their last 11 games when the regular season was cancelled.