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2024-25 Western Conference Prediction Contest

HermanG

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2025 Award Winner
RankContestantFINAL
Apr 15
Mar 23Dec 29Nov 22
1Handlogten's Heros48465357
T-2George W52525959
T-2YoungJefe52505159
T-4KqWIN53465755
T-4Release the Kraken53486043
T-4SoberasHotRod53504957
T-4silesian53565658
T-8Ferguson_Mellochill54525763
T-8HermanG54524154
T-8sip54524755
T-8Zombie54566159
12Jazznik55565963
T-13dipship3156566165
T-13SD Jazz56566154
15Brsn57606165
T-16David Hume58545765
T-16Thee Idiotic Minivan K58565462
18hgb59565763
19MT Steve60585566
20Saint Cy of JFC62605565
21JazzFever64645367

Reference scores (rank counted among all contestants):

RankReference score typeFINAL
Apr 15
Mar 23Dec 29Nov 22
1Alphabetic order43424044
T-4Concensus53505761
22Random65606151

As @One Brow hasnt logged in since May, I decided to do a community service and take over this excercise just for this year. If the OG owner of this comes back in, I will happily hand this over.

Rules are the same as last year, apart from #6 which does not include a penalty.

1. Post your regular season final standings for all 15 teams in the Western Conference.
2. All predictions are frozen at 23:59 on 2024-OCT-21 (after the preseason, before the season). Any changes are okay before then. I will compile my list on OCT-22, the same day the regular season opens up.
3. Your score is based on the net difference between your prediction and standings. For example, if you pick the Clippers to be first and they are in fourth, you receive 3 points for the Clippers. Low score wins.
4. Ranking is based on win% only.
5. Tied teams each receive an averaged score. For example, two teams tied for 5th/6th place are each scored as 5.5. Three teams tied for 10/11/12 are each scored as 11.
6. Order the teams with the following 3-letter abbreviations, without numbers, punctuation, etc..

DAL
DEN
GSW
HOU
LAC
LAL
MEM
MIN
NOP
OKC
PHX
POR
SAC
SAS
UTA

I expect the updates will come whenever @The Midnight has whined about the lack of them for long enough.
 
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As a sidenote, I will also add 2 non-human contestants to the race.

1. Random order (using some online randomizer)
2. Alphabetic order seen above (as it looks like it has a chance to score decent!!)
 
OKC
MIN
DAL
MEM
DEN
PHO
GSW
LAL
NOP
SAC
HOU
LAC
SAS
UTA
POR

Teams 7-11 could be rearranged in any way and I would be cool with it.
 
I thought that we as a group would tend to undervalue Minnesota for obvious reasons ... but nope, not at all.
 
OKC
MEM
MIN
PHX
DEN
HOU
NOP
DAL
GSW
LAL
SAC
SAS
LAC
UTA
POR
 
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One thing to watch out for is that basically every year there is a young fringe playoff team that jumps in to the top 4 and an old contender that drops out. Houston and Denver fit that description most based off of previous years, but I have a hard time believing those things will happen. You could probably just count Memphis and LAC as those teams this year, even if it isn't exactly how the trend has gone.
 
OKC
MIN
DEN
PHX
DAL
MEM
LAL
GSW
SAC
NOP
HOU
LAC
SAS
UTA
POR
 
One thing to watch out for is that basically every year there is a young fringe playoff team that jumps in to the top 4 and an old contender that drops out. Houston and Denver fit that description most based off of previous years, but I have a hard time believing those things will happen. You could probably just count Memphis and LAC as those teams this year, even if it isn't exactly how the trend has gone.
I just dont believe in Houston until they consolidate some of their young pieces into another near all-star caliber player.
 
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