How the Draft Order Is Randomized
No manual picking, no “trust me” — the draft order is generated by a fixed, publicly verifiable process. Anyone in the league can run the exact same steps and get the exact same result.
The Seed: Powerball Drawing — Saturday, September 5, 2026
The draft order seed comes from the Powerball drawing held Saturday, September 5, 2026. Nobody — including the commissioner — knows these numbers in advance, so there’s no way to select a seed that favors any team. Once the drawing happens, the numbers are public record, and the exact same draft order can be regenerated by anyone.
To build the seed: take the 5 white ball numbers in numerical order, zero-pad each to 2 digits, concatenate them in order, then append the Powerball number zero-padded to 2 digits. Read the full string as one integer.
Example: white balls 7, 12, 23, 45, 68 and Powerball 9 → seed = 071223456809
The Method
Once we have the seed, here’s exactly what happens: every team is given a random decimal number between 0 and 1, generated using that seed. Teams are then sorted from smallest number to largest — whoever lands on the smallest number picks first, and so on down the list.
The Actual Code
For full transparency, here’s the exact code used. Anyone comfortable with Python can run it themselves with the announced seed to verify the draft order independently.
If you don’t code, you can also paste this into any AI chatbot of your choice and ask it to explain what the code does, run through the logic by hand, or flag anything suspicious — it’s simple enough that any AI can vet it in seconds.
import random
random.seed(SEED)
teams = ["Allen", "Doug", "Joe", "Pat", "Jason", "Joey", "Craig", "Kyle", "Travis", "Kieran"] # fixed, pre-announced order
pairs = [(random.random(), team) for team in teams]
pairs.sort()
draft_order = [team for number, team in pairs]
print(draft_order)Why This Is Fair
- The seed comes from a future, public event nobody controls
- Team order going in is fixed and announced ahead of time — no hidden reordering
- Python’s random.random() is guaranteed by Python’s own documentation to produce identical output for the same seed, on any version, forever
- Sorting numbers smallest-to-largest has no room for interpretation or bias
- Anyone can re-run the exact process and check the result themselves
This Year’s Result
Winning Numbers (Sept 5, 2026 drawing): 15, 40, 47, 53, 59 + Powerball 09
Seed Used: 154047535909
Draft Order:
| Pick # | Team |
| 1st pick | Joey |
| 2nd pick | Kyle |
| 3rd pick | Craig |
| 4th pick | Allen |
| 5th pick | Doug |
| 6th pick | Pat |
| 7th pick | Travis |
| 8th pick | Jason |
| 9th pick | Joe |
| 10th pick | Kieran |