Draft Lotteries and Rewarding Failure
Pro sports use weighted lotteries for top draft picks — an elegant but imperfect fix to one of competition's strangest incentive problems.
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Pro sports use weighted lotteries for top draft picks — an elegant but imperfect fix to one of competition's strangest incentive problems.
Every major sport uses a coin toss before the game begins. It seems trivial — but the strategy, psychology, and controversy are anything but.