re: Ping Pong Balls Watch Updated 4/7

They still play the Raptors twice, Us, the Wizards and the Mavs once who are dropping like a stone. They should get 2 or 3 more easily.

The Sixers have the Wizard twice, Us and Toronto once and San Antonio once. SA is 4-9 in the last 13 with 3 of those 4 wins coming over the Pels, Nets and the Mavs.

Looks like 4 is our floor. But can we get to 3? The Hornets are 1 win behind us and are on a hot streak winning 3 of their last 4. If we go back to the 5th game it was a 1 point loss to the Cavs. Would be nice if they can steal a few more wins while we tank out.

And with Brooklyn's win tonight, the Pelicans now have a 5 game cushion between the next closest team for 4th worst record.

I don't see many wins left for Charlotte on its schedule, but it could always pull off a couple upsets. March 30 game in the SKC is big, we need to go out and support our Hornets in that one.

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Washington VS Utah tomorrow. Jazz are steering the tank quite well. I don't see them screwing it up/us catching them. Washington is screwing it up a bit and feel like we could catch them. Rooting for a Washington W.

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Let's guess the Pels end up with 20 wins, you would need Washington to win 5 more games to "catch" them. I don't know if head to head is the tiebreaker, but New Orleans swept Washington.

Wiz still have the Utah game and two against tanking Philly. So there's a chance they get 5 more wins. They did just shut Kispert down, don't know if others will be shut down.

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Ties for the lottery works a little differently.

When a tie occurs in the standings, the odds are split using the average of the odds between the positions. (Example: in this case 3rd record has 14% chance whereas 4th position has 12.5% chance. The average between the two is 13.25% which would be the new odds for both teams.) And to decided which team gets 3rd position vs 4th position would be decided by a coin flip.

Tieing for 3rd isn't a bad position to be in considering all things.

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That's good news, I appreciate that info.

I do agree with the prior poster, Washington is the only one with a real chance to win enough games to make a difference. Jazz schedule is much tougher.

When we won the AD lottery, I believe we had split odds with Cleveland for 3rd.

Pels beating a playoff team fighting for playoff seeding to ruin the tank

Big day today, with the Hornets in Miami. The Heat have lost 10 straight games, while the Hornets have won 4 out of their last 8 games, including a March 10 win in Miami.

There's a real chance that we could be at #3 by the end of the day.

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When a tie occurs in the standings, the odds are split using the average of the odds between the positions. (Example: in this case 3rd record has 14% chance whereas 4th position has 12.5% chance. The average between the two is 13.25% which would be the new odds for both teams.) And to decided which team gets 3rd position vs 4th position would be decided by a coin flip.

Tieing for 3rd isn't a bad position to be in considering all things.

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And to prove just how big a nerd I really am...since the 13.25% of 1000 possible "combos" doesn't come out to an even number...the winner of the coin flip would also get the odd extra " 4 number combo" and have 133 combos to the loser's 132. I WANT THAT EXTRA COMBO !!!

20 point lead by Miami now in the late 3rd. Absolute masterclass tanking by Charlotte. Down 20 to a team that haven't won a game in their last 10.