Kings playoff chances remote.
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This system is LAME.
The Griz holding a 3.5 game lead on the 8th seed with only 8 games to play is a FAAAAARRRRRRRR greater advantage than a 3.5 game lead with 17 games still to play.
They essentially double their previous lead!!! How is that a fair system?
I get that whomever finishes 9th among will get up to 2 shots to take the 8th seed away from them, but still. Getting a huge lift toward being gifted the HUGE advantage of having to lose twice in a play in doesn't make any logical or mathematical sense.
If they are going to cut the season down to only 8 games, they need to re-adjust the Griz 8th place lead on 9th place by half. Rounding upward, it'd be 2 games, with 8 left to play.
Would that be unfair? No more unfair than reducing the 17 games they'd have had to play (prior to the suspension) by more than half.
Seems like a fair compromise to me.
The Griz holding a 3.5 game lead on the 8th seed with only 8 games to play is a FAAAAARRRRRRRR greater advantage than a 3.5 game lead with 17 games still to play.
They essentially double their previous lead!!! How is that a fair system?
I get that whomever finishes 9th among will get up to 2 shots to take the 8th seed away from them, but still. Getting a huge lift toward being gifted the HUGE advantage of having to lose twice in a play in doesn't make any logical or mathematical sense.
If they are going to cut the season down to only 8 games, they need to re-adjust the Griz 8th place lead on 9th place by half. Rounding upward, it'd be 2 games, with 8 left to play.
Would that be unfair? No more unfair than reducing the 17 games they'd have had to play (prior to the suspension) by more than half.
Seems like a fair compromise to me.
this system is allowed to
1) get them the local TV revenue in as many markets as possible
2) give them, they hope, two play-in games with Zion.
That’s why the play-in threshold is increased to 4 games from 3.5. I just hope the Kings use it to improve their draft position and learn about Bagley and James if they lose that first game.
1) get them the local TV revenue in as many markets as possible
2) give them, they hope, two play-in games with Zion.
That’s why the play-in threshold is increased to 4 games from 3.5. I just hope the Kings use it to improve their draft position and learn about Bagley and James if they lose that first game.
So it was already bad enough that they decreased from 17 to 8, but to double down by increasing their lead to 4?
That’s madness. How on earth does it make sense to do that?
Decreasing the amount of games all teams have to make up the 3.5 games difference by more than half logically dictates that they decrease from 3.5, not increase from it.
What’s the freaking point of playing the 8 games now except to determine which team gets 9 and the disadvantage of having to win 2 games?
They’ve already handed #8 to Memphis on a silver platter.
Utterly ridiculous. IDK who dreamed up this scenario, but it’s laughable.
That’s madness. How on earth does it make sense to do that?
Decreasing the amount of games all teams have to make up the 3.5 games difference by more than half logically dictates that they decrease from 3.5, not increase from it.
What’s the freaking point of playing the 8 games now except to determine which team gets 9 and the disadvantage of having to win 2 games?
They’ve already handed #8 to Memphis on a silver platter.
Utterly ridiculous. IDK who dreamed up this scenario, but it’s laughable.
There wasn't any way this was going to be fair as in "no impact on the outcome of the season". The long layoff meant injured players have had a chance to get better, starters are now well-rested which is never the case the last month of the season, all the tanking teams are out since the lottery odds have been locked so those "automatic wins" are off the schedule and 8 teams not participating means these schedules are different anyway, regardless of how many games get played. I'm happy just to get some kind of team sports back. Maybe we only get 8 more games and our season is over but that's more than 26% of the league got.
Since the lottery odds are locked it makes sense to go all out and try to get in.
Maybe they could consider locking lottery odds at the trade deadline one year as a "test" for future seasons and see how that impacts the final months of play. I would recommend that year be the magic year where they ditch one and done.
I'm not super excited about this format and sports right now, but at least nobody is being punished for trying to compete in this wonky make-do format.
Maybe they could consider locking lottery odds at the trade deadline one year as a "test" for future seasons and see how that impacts the final months of play. I would recommend that year be the magic year where they ditch one and done.
I'm not super excited about this format and sports right now, but at least nobody is being punished for trying to compete in this wonky make-do format.
Maybe, but I think there would be more countervailing, anti-tanking incentives at work in January and February than we see at the end of the season. At the very least, teams haven't been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs yet, there's still the pre-deadline hope of a trade to save the season, and it's much easier on the business side for teams to swallow fans tuning out at the end of the year (assuming tanking would affect fan interest) than mid-season. It's an interesting thought experiment, at least!
It seems very early for all except the teams that entered the season as a season long tank. I guess there is a chance that some teams could throw away mid-season games to lock in a better spot, but it's kind of like the Samaki Walker 3 at the end of the first half that came after the buzzer. Almost nobody talks about THAT (even though I believe it directly lead to that being reviewable the next season).
Anyway, if it was run as a one season experiment in a year that is a hugely deep draft with a lot of uncertainty due to a crop of high schoolers entering with a crop of one and doners, what a great year to run it?
Anyway, if it was run as a one season experiment in a year that is a hugely deep draft with a lot of uncertainty due to a crop of high schoolers entering with a crop of one and doners, what a great year to run it?
Article at Lakernation seems to think this will set up a Laker/Clippers game 8 showdown (Think RATINGS)
https://lakersnation.com/lakers-rum...-details-once-22-team-plan-begins/2020/06/04/
Since both Spurs and Kings schedule come up with playing each other and they are 11th and 12th bubble teams
seems logical they will play each other?
https://lakersnation.com/lakers-rum...-details-once-22-team-plan-begins/2020/06/04/
Since both Spurs and Kings schedule come up with playing each other and they are 11th and 12th bubble teams
seems logical they will play each other?