2023 DRAFT LOTTERY

The 2023 MWBL Draft Lottery will take place on Monday, October 24th, 2022 at 9:00 PM ET.

The ten Franchises listed below will have a shot at the #1 Pick in the 2023 MWBL Draft to be held on Saturday, February 18th, 2023.

The Commissioner’s Office will post a link (Zoom) that will go live at 8:45 PM on Monday night 10/24 if you would like to watch the Lottery live.   A Google Random Number (1-100) Generator will be used to select the balls.

LOTTERY ELIGIBLE W L Pct Balls
Motor City Muscle 46 116 .284 20
Dallas Cougars 57 105 .352 16
Tijuana Bottle Rockets 58 104 .358 8
Mesa Solar Sox 70 92 .432 4
Cincinnati Skyliners 70 92 .432 2
LOTTERY ELIGIBLE W L Pct Balls
Harsens Island Walleye 50 112 .309 20
Valdosta Snappers 57 105 .352 16
Columbus Explorers 59 103 .364 8
Bethesda Bandicoots 64 98 .395 4
Triple Creek Patriots 65 97 .401 2

The Commissioner’s Office will conduct this LIVE using Zoom.

VII) DRAFTS

The Draft Lottery is designed to determine the Draft Order for the first three picks in the first round. The new process incorporates the five worst teams from each league (as opposed to the bottom two from each league. The change to the system would be still heavily weighted toward the bottom four teams in the League with a 70% chance of one of those four teams drawing the 1st pick.

(a) The number of teams involved in the lottery is 10

(b) The random balls should be distributed throughout 1-100 for the lottery. :

(c) The 5 worst teams in each league (based on W-L records) will be in the lottery and receive the number of balls as indicated below.

(d) 1st worst AL Team – has 20 balls 1st worst NL Team – has 20 balls

(e) 2nd worst AL Team- has 16 balls 2nd worst NL Team – has 16 balls

(f) 3rd worst AL Team – has 8 balls 3rd worst NL Team –has 8 balls

(g) 4th worst AL Team – has 4 balls 4th worst NL Team – has 4 balls

(h) 5th worst AL Team – has 2 balls 5th worst NL Team – has 2 balls

(i) In the case of ties based on W-L records the team with the better home record, would receive more lottery balls.

(j) In the case of (i) being a tie Head to Head Record based on W-L records the team with the better H2H record, would receive more lottery balls.

RANDOMLY GENERATED BALL ORDER:

FRANCHISE BALL #   FRANCHISE BALL #
Valdosta Snappers 1   Motor City Muscle 51
Triple Creek Patriots 2   Cincinnati Skyliners 52
Valdosta Snappers 3   Motor City Muscle 53
Valdosta Snappers 4   Harsens Island Walleye 54
Motor City Muscle 5   Harsens Island Walleye 55
Harsens Island Walleye 6   Valdosta Snappers 56
Harsens Island Walleye 7   Dallas Cougars 57
Dallas Cougars 8   Columbus Explorers 58
Valdosta Snappers 9   Dallas Cougars 59
Harsens Island Walleye 10   Valdosta Snappers 60
Dallas Cougars 11   Bethesda Bandicoots 61
Harsens Island Walleye 12   Valdosta Snappers 62
Harsens Island Walleye 13   Motor City Muscle 63
Columbus Explorers 14   Cincinnati Skyliners 64
Motor City Muscle 15   Tijuana Bottle Rockets 65
Motor City Muscle 16   Harsens Island Walleye 66
Harsens Island Walleye 17   Motor City Muscle 67
Harsens Island Walleye 18   Harsens Island Walleye 68
Dallas Cougars 19   Motor City Muscle 69
Dallas Cougars 20   Dallas Cougars 70
Motor City Muscle 21   Tijuana Bottle Rockets 71
Columbus Explorers 22   Motor City Muscle 72
Tijuana Bottle Rockets 23   Columbus Explorers 73
Dallas Cougars 24   Harsens Island Walleye 74
Harsens Island Walleye 25   Harsens Island Walleye 75
Valdosta Snappers 26   Harsens Island Walleye 76
Harsens Island Walleye 27   Dallas Cougars 77
Valdosta Snappers 28   Tijuana Bottle Rockets 78
Motor City Muscle 29   Dallas Cougars 79
Valdosta Snappers 30   Valdosta Snappers 80
Valdosta Snappers 31   Tijuana Bottle Rockets 81
Harsens Island Walleye 32   Mesa Solar Sox 82
Mesa Solar Sox 33   Valdosta Snappers 83
Motor City Muscle 34   Bethesda Bandicoots 84
Valdosta Snappers 35   Harsens Island Walleye 85
Valdosta Snappers 36   Triple Creek Patriots 86
Motor City Muscle 37   Columbus Explorers 87
Dallas Cougars 38   Dallas Cougars 88
Motor City Muscle 39   Columbus Explorers 89
Valdosta Snappers 40   Mesa Solar Sox 90
Tijuana Bottle Rockets 41   Motor City Muscle 91
Motor City Muscle 42   Dallas Cougars 92
Dallas Cougars 43   Bethesda Bandicoots 93
Harsens Island Walleye 44   Tijuana Bottle Rockets 94
Dallas Cougars 45   Columbus Explorers 95
Motor City Muscle 46   Motor City Muscle 96
Dallas Cougars 47   Harsens Island Walleye 97
Mesa Solar Sox 48   Bethesda Bandicoots 98
Motor City Muscle 49   Motor City Muscle 99
Tijuana Bottle Rockets 50   Columbus Explorers 100

Post Draft Day
Trading Allowed
Until Tuesday
02/18/2025
8:00 AM ET

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