* In the first proposal. 18 teams -- the bottom 10 that miss the play-in tournament, and the eight that qualify for it -- all will be part of the draft lottery. The bottom 10 teams will all have an equal 8% chance of moving up in the lottery, with the remaining 20% of the odds being split among the eight play-in teams in descending order from 11th through 18th. All 18 spots would be drawn as part of the lottery in that format.
* In the second proposal, sources told Charania, 22 teams -- the bottom 10 teams that miss the play-in tournament, the eight that qualify for it and the four playoff teams that lose in the first round -- will all be included in the lottery, and will be ranked according to their record across two seasons. The last part, weighting teams by their record across the prior two seasons, is how the WNBA weights its lottery system.
* The third proposal is a "five-by-five" method, sources told Charania. In this one, the same 18 teams from the first concept -- the bottom 10 that miss the play-in, plus the eight that make it -- would be entered into the lottery. The teams with the five worst records would then all have the same odds, with them descending from there, and there would be a lottery drawing for each of the top five picks in the draft.