Lottery Tournament Facts

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- With their win in the S83 Lottery tournament, the Los Angeles Stars became the second team to acquire the maximum possible 35% odds of winning the first overall selection (the first was New York in Season 75). This also makes the Los Angeles Stars the team with the worst regular season record (38 points) to win the lottery tournament. Interestingly, both the S75 New York and S83 Los Angeles teams recorded a +6 goal differential during their winning efforts.

 

- Since Los Angeles also owns Vancouver's 1st rounder, this gives LA (barring any trades) a 55% chance of holding the first overall pick in the Season 84 Draft, which ties the lottery-era record set by Helsinki ahead of the Season 81 Draft. 

 

- This tournament also saw the team with the best record to ever enter the Lottery Tournament in the Helsinki Titans, who had 91 points in the regular season. Helsinki Titans went on to finish second to the Stars despite recording a +20 goal differential across the tournament, which is a new record beating the +19 set by Warsaw in Season 74 and later tied by Riga in Season 81 (Like Helsinki, that Riga team also finished in second place). 

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