The first draft lottery to determine which teams get the top picks in the draft takes place Tuesday December sixth. I did not realize that an added wrinkle aims to prevent long-term tanking and to prevent rich teams from too many top picks:

Teams that receive revenue-sharing payouts can’t receive a lottery pick for more than two years in a row and those that don’t get revenue-sharing payments can’t get a top-six choice in consecutive Drafts. Furthermore, a club that’s ineligible for the lottery can’t select higher than 10th overall.

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So if the league sends money your way and you finish top six in the lottery two years in a row, tanking in the third year does not help. With luck this will prevent the five-year tanks we saw from clubs like the Cubs and the Astros in the previous decade.