Than any of them individually yes, but as a group, no. As a group they have a 40% chance of one of them moving up, where we have a 14% chance of it.
I mean, if you're grouping them, then its more likely that someone in just either the 6 or the 7 spot will win the #1 than we do individually. So, yeah, much better chances that someone in the 4-8 spot will end up #1 or #2 if you are combining all of them. We still have a better shot than any individual one of them though.
Yes but it supports the conspiracy theory better, so there is that;.
and honestly the bolded is why the lottery is a good system to discourage tanking while at the same time at least giving bad teams a chance to get better. for a team like the jazz, it's probably the only way to get to the top, but the odds are stacked against it.
Theoretically discourages tanking and yet… here we are.
Maybe it encourages the bottom 6-7 to tank even harder to raise the floor because of how much they may get screwed, and further encourages tanking on the back end of the lottery because now those cats feel they have a chance.
If we aren’t able to hit on this, we’re ****ed. And if we can’t successfully tank next year and hit again, we’re still pretty ****ed. Lining up both of those and we’re definitely ****ed. It really takes the pressure off and should ease anxiety. I think there’s actually a Matthew Broderick quote about this from The Freshman. Or maybe it was even Ferris Bueller. I’ll go find it.
It’s objectively not a good system because teams are still tanking, so all the lottery does is unfairly punish some teams and reward others.
Nobody with worse odds than Brooklyn will win the lottery
I see. I thought you were saying that we’d win it through them.
