2025 DRAFT LOTTERY

The 2025 MWBL Draft Lottery is scheduled to take place on Monday, November 4, 2024, at 9:00 PM Eastern Time.

This event holds significant importance as it will determine the order of selection for the upcoming 2025 MWBL Draft, set to be held on Saturday, February 15th, 2025.

Eight Franchises, as enumerated below, will be vying for the coveted #1 Pick in the 2025 MWBL Draft:

For those eager to witness this pivotal event in real-time, the Commissioner’s Office will provide a live-streaming link via Zoom, which will become active at 8:45 PM on the evening of Monday, November 4, 2024.

To maintain transparency and fairness in the selection process, a Google Random Number (1-100 Generator, with numbers ranging from 1 to 100, will be employed to determine the order of selection.

Your participation in this is encouraged, as we eagerly await the outcome of the 2025 MWBL Draft Lottery.

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 four worst teams from each league (as opposed to the bottom two from each league. The change to the system would still be heavily weighted toward the bottom four teams in the League, with a 70% chance that one of those four teams would draw 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 four 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 25 balls 1st worst NL Team – has 25 balls
(e) 2nd worst AL Team- has 13 balls 2nd worst NL Team – has 13 balls
(f) 3rd worst AL Team – has 8 balls 3rd worst NL Team –has 8 balls
(g) In the case of ties based on W-L records the team with the better home record, would receive more lottery balls.
(h) 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: