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: