How the baseball draft lottery works

Enter your league name and pick a team count from 6 to 20.
Type in each manager's team name. Emails are optional.
Turn on weighted mode if you want lottery balls, then set a count per team.
Reveal the order live, or seal it behind a countdown for draft night.

Built for deep leagues: 12, 14, even 20 teams in dynasty and keeper formats fit in one draw instead of being split up.

Random or weighted

A brand-new league should run a flat randomizer. Nobody has a record yet, so every manager gets the same shot at the first pick.

Because a baseball season is long, the standings at the end usually mean something. That makes a weighted lottery a natural fit: assign lottery balls by finish, and the teams that ground through a rough year get a real edge at the top pick without it being automatic.

Snake, auction or keeper

The generator sets the order, so it works however you actually draft. In a snake league the order runs forward then reverses each round. In an auction league it sets the nomination sequence. In a keeper league, run the lottery among only the teams that missed the playoffs and slot the rest by finish.

Keep it sealed until the league is together: everyone opens one link, a countdown runs out, and each manager can have their own pick emailed to them at that moment.

Other sports

Same generator, any league of 6 to 20 teams, in any format — snake, auction, keeper or dynasty.