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  1. 03-31-2015 #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by baseline bum
    It just needs to be a straight lottery. Put 14 balls in that air machine, first ball drawn is the #1 pick, second the #2, and so on. It was pretty effective getting rid of tanking after Houston did that back to back years, and you didn't start seeing tanking again until they went and started heavily weighting the lottery in favor of the worst teams again.
    Also I hate the whole "closed door" aspect of the Lottery. I'm not saying that I don't trust "The Brass" at the top of the Association....I'm just saying.

    Put the entire thing on television....make a 30 minute TV show. Show all the ping pong balls going in...and show them live as they're picked. Every year we have a "conspiracy" on who gets the #1 pick. "The NBA wants CLE to get the 1st pick so Lebron comes back"....."The NBA wanted Ewing in NY". And god forbid the Lakers win the Lottery. The conspiracy theories will be at an all time high....
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    Quote Originally Posted by baseline bum
    The pick is top 5 protected. Not protected against the Lakers record. In my system the only way the Lakers could change the odds of keeping their pick would be to make the playoffs so that they had 0% chance of keeping it.
    That's solid then, IMO.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silver&Black
    Also I hate the whole "closed door" aspect of the Lottery. I'm not saying that I don't trust "The Brass" at the top of the Association....I'm just saying.

    Put the entire thing on television....make a 30 minute TV show. Show all the ping pong balls going in...and show them live as they're picked. Every year we have a "conspiracy" on who gets the #1 pick. "The NBA wants CLE to get the 1st pick so Lebron comes back"....."The NBA wanted Ewing in NY". And god forbid the Lakers win the Lottery. The conspiracy theories will be at an all time high....
    And, per usual, the Lakers won't do a damn thing with it unless they get gifted another all-world big from a team who had a closed door meeting with the commish about making a trade.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silver&Black
    Also I hate the whole "closed door" aspect of the Lottery. I'm not saying that I don't trust "The Brass" at the top of the Association....I'm just saying.

    Put the entire thing on television....make a 30 minute TV show. Show all the ping pong balls going in...and show them live as they're picked. Every year we have a "conspiracy" on who gets the #1 pick. "The NBA wants CLE to get the 1st pick so Lebron comes back"....."The NBA wanted Ewing in NY". And god forbid the Lakers win the Lottery. The conspiracy theories will be at an all time high....
    The lottery as it is done now wouldn't make very good TV though. They draw a sequence of numbers, and that sequence determines the top 3 picks, then the rest goes by record. So its just draw a few numbers and look in the table of precomputed scenarios to see which 3 teams pick top 3 and in what order. It would be really boring and you wouldn't get the game show style revaltion of results you have now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by baseline bum
    The lottery as it is done now wouldn't make very good TV though. They draw a sequence of numbers, and that sequence determines the top 3 picks, then the rest goes by record. So its just draw a few numbers and look in the table of precomputed scenarios to see which 3 teams pick top 3 and in what order. It would be really boring and you wouldn't get the game show style revaltion of results you have now.
    Totally agree....and I'm not looking for a "game show style" TV show. AND I really don't care if it makes good TV or not.

    The current TV show ESPN airs is not really that good either. I mean I get to watch Dan Gilbert's son again (well not this year)....and Dr. J will probably make another appearance...and I get to see what good luck charms the people brought with them.

    I just think that having full access to the lottery ball selections is a necessary evil....good TV or bad TV be damned.
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