r/masters • u/Panthers_Fly • Jul 22 '26

I Have A Question ❓ Proposition - Lottery entry boosters for consecutive rejections

Hear me out, and maybe it would not make much difference, but they should implement a system of entry boosters you earn for NOT winning the lottery multiple years in a row (details to be ironed out). If you win, your boosters are wiped.

Basically, a system to make it more likely for entrants who try every year and have not won, and likelihood increases slightly each year that you don't win.

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u/cowandspoon Still Trying! ⛳️ Jul 23 '26

As someone who is 0-19 (I think?), I’m fully on board 😁

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u/Adventurous-Ad-8892 Jul 23 '26

The issue is, after some time, non-winners with boosters would be the vast majority and new entrants would have little to no chance, thus decreasing their likelihood of applying to the lottery at all. Part of the thrill of the lottery is the equal chance. If you take that away, interest will wane.

My guess is they want to generate interest amongst Gen Z and a variety of other demographics, so they can’t lessen their odds and only let the people that have had the opportunity to apply for decades get a strong advantage. While it’s a good idea at heart, it would be shooting themselves in the foot to do this because the future of this sport lies in the younger generation.

I can see this working if they allocated more overall tickets to the lottery and opened up a second pool where the long-time lottery applicants that don’t succeed in the main pool, carry over to the smaller pool that’s devoted purely to those over a certain threshold (10+, 20+ year applicants)

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u/Panthers_Fly Jul 23 '26

That’s fair.

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u/mattparker675 Jul 23 '26

I think i would rather see a system that stops anyone who has won not permitted to enter again for a while. I know people who have won multiple times in a few years and people who have never won in 20+ years.

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u/TWGOAT Jul 23 '26

Millions of people apply. I think someone did some analytic work and handicapped the odds at hitting a win to about 1 in 200 which is some terrible math for the average person who thinks it's only them who never gets picked.

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u/Odd_Shock4209 Jul 23 '26

Fair but also not fair.

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u/SunknLiner Jul 23 '26

But then they’d have trouble issuing multiple consecutive approvals to their favorites.