At long last: the Draft Lottery has run! After many real-life delays and then several technical glitches, we finally have our Season 5 Amateur Draft Order. A few points of order and clarification on the logistics of how we got here. First of all, Bob and I returned to the original post made by minihouston explaining how this lottery is supposed to work, outlined in the following post from Season 2:
In short: Compensation picks stay where they are, and the top six picks are semi-protected from the lottery (meaning they can pick no worse than six spots lower than their intended slot.) So, now we get down to the business of figuring out what the Draft Spreadsheet says the order is supposed to be so we can figure out what tweaks need to be made to adhere to the rules outlined above. Here's the screenrecording of the sheet generating the order:
- Charlotte
- Helena
- Arizona
- Boise
- Durham
- Vancouver
- Tacoma
- Colorado Springs
- Louisville
- Philadelphia
- Portland
- Rochester
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Cincinnati
- Helena (via Type D Compensation for Kevin Braden) **2nd pick**
- New York
- Texas
- Mexico City
- Nashville
- Buffalo
- Kansas City
- New Orleans
- Texas **2nd pick**
- Fresno
- Baltimore
- Tucson
- San Antonio
- Tacoma **2nd pick**
- Syracuse
- Trenton
- Trenton **2nd pick**
- Boston
- Texas **3rd pick**
- Charlotte **2nd pick**
- Tacoma **3rd pick**
- New York **2nd pick**
- Texas **4th pick**
- Tucson **2nd pick**
- Trenton **3rd pick**
- Tucson **3rd pick**
- Tucson **4th pick**
- Charlotte **3rd pick**
- Durham **2nd pick**
- Colorado Springs **2nd pick**
- Philadelphia **2nd pick**
- Portland **2nd pick**
- Los Angeles **2nd pick**
- New York **3rd pick**
- Texas **5th pick**
- Nashville **2nd pick**
- New Orleans **2nd pick**
- Fresno **2nd pick**
- Baltimore **2nd pick**
- Fargo
- Charlotte **4th pick**
- Fargo **2nd pick**
