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Postby CalvinBall » Tue May 20, 2014 15:29:04

in a closed door board meeting after looking over the data collected regarding the impact what players will have on the nba by playing on teams in certain markets.

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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Woody » Tue May 20, 2014 15:30:00

Squire wrote:And how do they do it?


http://es.pn/1ncsll1
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Eem » Tue May 20, 2014 15:30:33

Squire wrote:I know when they reveal the lottery results. But when do they actually conduct the lottery? And how do they do it?

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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Woody » Tue May 20, 2014 15:35:36

Eem wrote:
Squire wrote:I know when they reveal the lottery results. But when do they actually conduct the lottery? And how do they do it?



okay so I didn't watch the whole thing. but i saw them but 14 balls in the lotto machine, draw four, and then from that somehow determine Cleveland got the first pick.

I'm even more confused
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Eem » Tue May 20, 2014 15:37:11

Each team is given a list of different combinations numbers in a specific order, using 1-14.

So for instance, the Sixers may have 8-5-3-12 and 500 other combos. And the teams with a higher number of chances to win the lottery have more combinations. They then draw three combinations for the top three picks.
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Woody » Tue May 20, 2014 15:38:19

Eem wrote:Each team is given a list of different combinations numbers in a specific order, using 1-14.

So for instance, the Sixers may have 8-5-3-12 and 500 other combos. And the teams with a higher number of chances to win the lottery have more combinations. They then draw three combinations for the top three picks.


perfect, thanks. I assumed it was something like this but tough without voiceover.
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Eem » Tue May 20, 2014 15:39:18

I think they do it this way because it'd have to be a YUGE LOTTERY BALL PICKER to fit in like 15,000 team logo balls
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby JFLNYC » Tue May 20, 2014 15:40:43

So we're going to know pretty quickly whether the Pels pick is in the top 3, right?
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Eem » Tue May 20, 2014 15:41:20

JFLNYC wrote:So we're going to know pretty quickly whether the Pels pick is in the top 3, right?

Yep.
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Soren » Tue May 20, 2014 15:41:59

I might puuuke
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby BigEd76 » Tue May 20, 2014 15:43:06

yep. It'll be within the first 5 cards revealed

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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Doll Is Mine » Tue May 20, 2014 15:55:42

Eem wrote:Each team is given a list of different combinations numbers in a specific order, using 1-14.

So for instance, the Sixers may have 8-5-3-12 and 500 other combos. And the teams with a higher number of chances to win the lottery have more combinations. They then draw three combinations for the top three picks.


I'm still confused. What exactly is a combination? Are the combinations on little balls? This is so confusing.

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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Tue May 20, 2014 15:57:36

the little balls make the combinations.

it isnt that hard

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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Soren » Tue May 20, 2014 15:58:40

Doll Is Mine wrote:
Eem wrote:Each team is given a list of different combinations numbers in a specific order, using 1-14.

So for instance, the Sixers may have 8-5-3-12 and 500 other combos. And the teams with a higher number of chances to win the lottery have more combinations. They then draw three combinations for the top three picks.


I'm still confused. What exactly is a combination? Are the combinations on little balls? This is so confusing.


there are a certain number of balls, each of them numbered. The commish pulls out some balls at random. Each team is assigned a number of combinations, so if the commish pulls out ball numbers 1, 2 then 3 then who ever had combo 1-2-3 gets whatever pick he was selecting for. The shit teams get more combinations.
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Eem » Tue May 20, 2014 15:58:54

No, there are 14 balls in the shuffler. 1-14. No repeats. The guy then draws four of the numbers to assign a selection... for instance, 6-11-3-9. In that order. They then match that combination with a team -- each team is assigned a list of number combinations using 1-14, with the worst team getting the most combinations and the "best" getting the fewest.

So in this scenario the team with 6-11-3-9 would get the #1 overall pick. They then draw combinations for the #2 and #3 picks. If the combo drawn matches a team that already got a selection, they redraw until they match a team that hasn't gotten a selection.
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Soren » Tue May 20, 2014 15:59:02

commish grabbin balls.
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Houshphandzadeh » Tue May 20, 2014 15:59:10

here's an old Lowe article where he was in the room:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basket ... index.html

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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Doll Is Mine » Tue May 20, 2014 16:00:31

CalvinBall wrote:the little balls make the combinations.

it isnt that hard


But what is a combination and how does one combination differ from another? Is it a bunch or numbers? And what do those numbers mean?

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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby Eem » Tue May 20, 2014 16:03:44

Doll Is Mine wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:the little balls make the combinations.

it isnt that hard


But what is a combination and how does one combination differ from another? Is it a bunch or numbers? And what do those numbers mean?

It's a combination of four numbers in a specific order. Think of how many of these you can make with 14 different numbers, and imagine how long a list of a team's potential combinations are:

1-2-3-4
1-3-2-4
1-2-4-3

No numbers repeat in a combination. They use 14 different numbers for the 14 different teams, but it's a way of making the process completely random. And as I said above, it's a way of using a normal sized machine instead of trying to shove 30,000 team logo balls into one machine.

Also, only one team is assigned each combo. So there's a team that has 1-2-3-4 IN THAT ORDER, but no other team has it.
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Re: 2014 NBA Lottery Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Tue May 20, 2014 16:05:40

4-8-15-16-23-42

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