Draft Lottery 2027

Remember how we are instituting a draft lottery for 2027, using combined records from the two most recent regular seasons? Here is the full draft lottery explainer if you don’t recall.

And the actual NBA draft lottery rules as well. "After drawings are conducted for the first four picks of the NBA Draft, the other lottery teams will continue to pick in inverse order of their regular-season record." So for example, the worst pick our lottery position one team, MEMM, could get is 2027 RD1.5 pick, and so on.

Note: The draft lottery is only for RD1 and after that we are going reverse power rankings from the most recent regular season, and no snake each round. Just #16-1, #16-1, and so on.

Below is the our 2027 Draft Lottery positions and odds, and recall that we are aligning them with the actual NBA draft teams for the real life lottery. That means MEMM will be aligned with the worst NBA team, ABCX with the second-worst, and so on. So thus the NBA lottery night will be very exciting!

Tie-breakers

Between ABCX and TRUO, we just took the total H2H from the 2025 and 2026 seasons, resulting in a 2-1 record for TRUO, which gives ABCX a worse overall record.

Between BUFF and FJUB, we did the same thing, with BUFF winning those matchups 4-0, giving FJUB a worse overall record with tiebreakers.

Cumulative 2025 and 2026 Regular Season Records

Actual 2025 and 2026 regular season records for all the teams using for calculation:

Power Ranking 2026

Tie-Breakers

Tiebreakers for #2-5 came down to FJUB tying in H2H with SQSQ at 2-1 each between the four teams with 0.706. Then according to our rules, we go for most categories won next, which was 93 for FJUB and 81 for SQSQ, giving FJUB the higher seed.

Then for #3, SQSQ had a 2-0 H2H record versus SPDE and SCRM, so they get that seed.

Finally, SPDE versus SCRM came down to a head to head matchup, which SPDE won in WK4, giving SPDE the last bye and relegating SCRM to have to play in the first round of the playoffs.

For tiebreaker #12 and #13, TRUO beat FUNK in WK14 head to head, giving them the higher seed and the final playoff spot.