Eem wrote:

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.

CalvinBall wrote: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.

Barry Jive wrote:per Simmons the Sixers have the 10th most lottery karma. The Celtics are #2

Doll Is Mine wrote:

Eem wrote:

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.

It's much more clear now. Thanks.

Do we know how many combos the worst has in comparison to the best?

Wang Zhizhi wrote:I am sure some morons will have a conspiracy theory for it being fixed no matter what team wins it.

MoBettle wrote:

Barry Jive wrote:per Simmons the Sixers have the 10th most lottery karma. The Celtics are #2

shocker

The Karma Gods can’t reward anyone who lost 26 straight

MoBettle wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:

Eem wrote:

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.

It's much more clear now. Thanks.

Do we know how many combos the worst has in comparison to the best?

It's the chances/1000 on that chart in the first page of this thread (Bucks have 250 combos, we have 199 etc)

The Nightman Cometh wrote:I think we can now safely say that DiM is not in the field of mathematics.

MoBettle wrote:

MoBettle wrote:

Barry Jive wrote:per Simmons the Sixers have the 10th most lottery karma. The Celtics are #2

shocker

The Karma Gods can’t reward anyone who lost 26 straight

Literally the only other team that has lost 26 straight in NBA history won the lottery that year.

kopphanatic wrote:http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-nba-draft-lottery-karma-rankings/

Bill Simmons ranks who he thinks deserves the top pick. Has Sixers near the bottom for tanking. The Celtics are at number two, conveniently ignoring that they've tanked on multiple occasions.