bustaheims
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oldman said:All I'm saying is it is too easy to fix. Now Bettman can almost pick and choose which non playoff team gets the number 1 draft pick. Why not televise it? It would be far more exciting to watch the ball drop than Bill Daly open up a huge envelope. It would also kill any conspiracy theories.
Well, the reality is, the legal issues actually make is awfully risky for Bettman to fix - he'd lose his job if he were caught and be subject to dozens of lawsuits. On top of that, the draft lottery is actually conducted by an impartial, independent accounting firm, and is a pretty boring process as it is currently structured. They don't choose a ball out of a barrel or anything like that. They assign a series of 4 digit numbers to each team in the lottery and use a random number generator to choose the winner.