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re: Did Dikembe Mutombo let the cat out of the bag re: NBA Lottery?

Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:58 pm to
Posted by Chad504boy
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Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:58 pm to
it is impossible for 20 bouncing balls to give proper odds needed and %'s of all those teams odds. How the fricking do you make a bouncing ball .8% chance?
Posted by burdman
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Member since Aug 2007
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Posted on 5/17/16 at 4:02 pm to
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it is impossible for 20 bouncing balls to give proper odds needed and %'s of all those teams odds. How the fricking do you make a bouncing ball .8% chance?



0.8% of the combinations?
Posted by VermilionTiger
Member since Dec 2012
37790 posts
Posted on 5/17/16 at 4:03 pm to
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it is impossible for 20 bouncing balls to give proper odds needed and %'s of all those teams odds. How the fricking do you make a bouncing ball .8% chance?


Doesn't work like that. It's some combination thing they have going. It makes sense..I haven't read about it in a while though.
Posted by WestCoastAg
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 5/17/16 at 4:05 pm to
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it is impossible for 20 bouncing balls to give proper odds needed and %'s of all those teams odds. How the fricking do you make a bouncing ball .8% chance?
because the balls have nothing to do with the actual assigning of picks. they take 14 balls numbered 1-14 and then draw 4. they then compare the number combination to a list of all possible combinations and they see which team was assigned that combination. so if the numbers they drew were 1,6,7,5 they would then see who had that combo and thats who gets the pick. the odds dont come from the balls, they come from the amount of number combinations assigned to a team
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 5/17/16 at 4:05 pm to
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How the fricking do you make a bouncing ball .8% chance?
Have 125 balls, 1 is that team
Posted by castorinho
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Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 5/17/16 at 4:05 pm to
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it is impossible for 20 bouncing balls to give proper odds needed and %'s of all those teams odds. How the fricking do you make a bouncing ball .8% chance?



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