CAPITAL1 is now in position to potentially secure the No. 1 overall pick in the PVL Rookie Draft for the second straight year.
The league confirmed on Sunday the four teams included in this year’s draft lottery, along with their corresponding odds ahead of the draw set for Monday, May 25.
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Fresh off landing former MVPs Vanie Gandler and Erika Santos in the free-agent market, the Solar Spikers now own a 40-percent chance at bagging the top overall pick once more after selecting Bella Belen first overall last year.
Capital1 will again be joined in the lottery by Galeries Tower and ZUS Coffee, the only three teams to have appeared in every draft lottery since the system was introduced in 2024.
The Highrisers hold the second-best odds at 30 percent, followed by the Thunderbelles at 20 percent.
Meanwhile, Choco Mucho enters the draft lottery for the first time, though the Flying Titans carry the lowest probability of landing the top pick at 10 percent.
What are the chances?
Still, recent draft lottery history has proven that having the best odds does not necessarily translate to landing the top pick.
Nxled learned that the hard way last year after entering the draw with the highest probability, only to fall to the fourth overall selection and clear the path for Capital1 to move up and use the No. 1 pick on Belen.
With the odds now in their favor, the Solar Spikers could soon reunite Belen with either the presumptive top prospect of this year’s class in Alyssa Solomon, her decorated National University playmaker Lams Lamina or her former elementary school teammate and good pal in outgoing University of Santo Tomas captain Detdet Pepito.
Hours before the lottery draw, the PVL is also set to release the official list of approved draft applicants eligible for the mandatory Rookie Draft Combine slated from May 28 to 29 at Gameville Ballpark in Mandaluyong City.
Applicants, meanwhile, will still have until June 1 to formally withdraw from the draft pool ahead of draft night proper on June 3 at Novotel Manila Araneta City in Quezon City.
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