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Well it's totally irrelevant since the Jazz beat the Spurs (bad), the Jazz now own the tiebreak.
With the Hornets loss to the Kings, there are now 4 teams with 25 losses. The Jazz and Suns both have 27 losses.
Lakers 55-25 left: Spurs, Kings
Hornets 55-25 left: Clippers, Mavs
Spurs 54-25 left: Lakers, Kings, Jazz
Rockets 54-25 left: Nuggets, Jazz, Clippers
The only game left among these four teams is Spurs vs. Lakers.
One of these teams will be bumped to the 5th seed because Utah can finish no worse than 4th.
The possibilities boggle the mind.
Here's the tiebreak story:
Lakers vs. Hornets: Lakers own.
Lakers vs. Spurs: depends on Sunday's game.
Lakers vs. Rockets: Rockets own.
Hornets vs. Spurs: Hornets own.
Hornets vs. Rockets: Hornets own.
Spurs vs. Rockets: Spurs own.
Spurs, Lakers and Rockets should all send the Kings a bunch of strippers tonight to thank them for beating the Hornets
The Kings also play the Lakers and the Spurs! They can be big time spoilers.Spurs, Lakers and Rockets should all send the Kings a bunch of strippers tonight to thank them for beating the Hornets
GO KINGS...wait...DON'T GO, KINGS...ah, it...the West is insane this year...
Nice work!
How did the spurs win the tie break against Houston?
They're 2-2 so the next tie-breaker would be conference record, and right now, Houston has 1 more win.
The following NBA link specifies that division record is NOT used as tie-breaker if more than 2 teams are tied (e.g. Phoenix, Houston, Spurs):
http://www.nba.com/statistics/playoff_picture.html#tbb
What if...
NBA re-does the structure of finals... to be best 16 teams, 1 v 16, 2 v 15 and so on.
We'd be 5th best team right now...
Spurs v. Cleveland 1st Round.
Would this be preferred?
If the Spurs and Rockets are tied and no one else is tied with them (it's a two-team tie), the division record is the next tiebreak after head-to-head, and the Spurs own that.
Not exactly. It says the divison record is used if the three tied teams are all in the same division. But you raise a good point -- I did not consider three-way ties in my tiebreak analysis.The following NBA link specifies that division record is NOT used as tie-breaker if more than 2 teams are tied (e.g. Phoenix, Houston, Spurs):
http://www.nba.com/statistics/playoff_picture.html#tbb
So here's a start:
1) Spurs, Rockets, and Suns all tied at (let's say) 55-27. The first three-way tiebreak is ulative record among the three teams. The Suns are 5-3 in games vs. the Spurs and Rockets. The Rockets are 4-4, the Spurs are 3-5. So in this scenario, the tie would be broken as the Suns, Rockets, Spurs in that order. So, actually, you are exactly correct! The Spurs do NOT yet own the tiebreak against Houston because this three-way tie COULD happen. Bizarrely, the fact that the Rockets had a better record vs. the Suns than the Spurs did would mean that the Rockets would beat out the Spurs.
2) Spurs, Rockets, and Hornets all tied at (let's say) 56-26. The first tiebreak is ulative record among the three teams. They are all tied at 4-4. The next tiebreak is division record since they are all in the same division. This would cause the tiebreak to be resolved as Hornets, Spurs, Rockets in that order. Why? First, the Rockets are clearly behind at 8-8. The Spurs are 10-6, and the Hornets either beat Dallas to finish 11-5 thus winning the tiebreak, or they lose to Dallas and finish 10-6. In this last case, the Hornets conference record would be the next tiebreak and they'd be 1 game better than the Spurs.
Other 3-way and even 4-way ties are possible, I'd have to spend more time to figure them out! But you get the idea.
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