Season 5 Draft Lottery

 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: 


Based on these two data points, here's how the first round and Supplemental Round finally shake out: 

  1. Charlotte 
  2. Helena
  3. Arizona
  4. Boise
  5. Durham
  6. Vancouver
  7. Tacoma
  8. Colorado Springs
  9. Louisville
  10. Philadelphia
  11. Portland
  12. Rochester
  13. Los Angeles
  14. Chicago
  15. Cincinnati
  16. Helena (via Type D Compensation for Kevin Braden) **2nd pick**
  17. New York 
  18. Texas
  19. Mexico City
  20. Nashville
  21. Buffalo
  22. Kansas City
  23. New Orleans
  24. Texas **2nd pick**
  25. Fresno
  26. Baltimore
  27. Tucson
  28. San Antonio 
  29. Tacoma **2nd pick**
  30. Syracuse
  31. Trenton
  32. Trenton **2nd pick**
  33. Boston
  34. Texas **3rd pick**
  35. Charlotte **2nd pick**
  36. Tacoma  **3rd pick**
  37. New York **2nd pick**
  38. Texas **4th pick**
  39. Tucson **2nd pick**
  40. Trenton **3rd pick**
  41. Tucson **3rd pick**
  42. Tucson **4th pick**
  43. Charlotte **3rd pick**
  44. Durham **2nd pick**
  45. Colorado Springs **2nd pick**
  46. Philadelphia **2nd pick**
  47. Portland **2nd pick**
  48. Los Angeles **2nd pick**
  49. New York **3rd pick**
  50. Texas **5th pick**
  51. Nashville **2nd pick**
  52. New Orleans **2nd pick**
  53. Fresno **2nd pick**
  54. Baltimore **2nd pick**
  55. Fargo
  56. Charlotte **4th pick**
  57. Fargo **2nd pick**