The WNBA draft lottery is an annual event held since 2002 by the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), in which the teams who had missed the playoffs the previous year participate in a lottery process to determine the draft order in the first round of the WNBA draft.
As of 2021, the four teams that had the worst combined winning percentage in each of the last two previous WNBA seasons are eligible for each year's WNBA draft lottery which is used to determine the first four picks in each WNBA draft, The lottery itself is conducted by choosing combinations of four ping-pong balls numbered 1 through 14 from a lottery machine.
For each of the top two picks, four balls are drawn from a lottery machine.
Whichever team has been assigned that four-ball combination will receive the No.
3-4 picks in reverse order of their winning percentage.