From: matthew@base.cs.ucla.edu (Matthew Merzbacher)
Subject: If the playoffs were held today (1/26)
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:47:07 GMT

Thanks to Gidi Avrahami, who sends me the standings every Tuesday.

Here's the weekly posting of "If the playoffs were today".
Full standings at end of post, along with the new weekly feature:
"Lottery Update"

The seeding information is reverse chronological.  That is, the current
seed is listed the the left, with the position in past weeks going right.

Example:
3. (1,2,B,...) Bayonne (10-3)...

Means that Bayonne is #3 seed this week, and was #1 last week and #2 the
week before.  A week before that, they were 11th (in hex 11=B), and so on.

The tie-breaker is division record followed by conference-record.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

1. (1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1) CHI (27-13) -+         Lead Division
                                      |-+
8. (5,4,6,6,8,5,6,5,5,B) CHA (18-19) -+ |
                                        |-+
5. (6,7,A,A,B,A,A,A,E,8) BOS (21-19) -+ | |
                                      |-+ |
4. (4,5,5,5,5,3,4,6,B,5) NJN (23-17) -+   |
                                          |--
3. (3,3,3,3,3,9,7,9,7,7) CLE (24-16) -+   |
                                      |-+ |
6. (7,8,7,4,4,8,5,2,2,4) ORL (17-17) -+ | |
                                        |-+
7. (A,A,B,9,9,6,9,8,8,9) ATL (19-20) -+ |
                                      |-+
2. (2,2,2,2,1,2,2,4,4,2) NYK (24-14) -+         Lead Division
    
Games Behind (sorted by percentage)

GB  Pos  Prior Position        Team
 .5  9  (9,9,9,8,6,4,8,7,6,6) IND (19-21)
2    10 (8,6,4,7,7,B,C,E,D,A) DET (17-22)
2    11 (B,C,D,C,C,D,E,D,A,D) PHI (16-21)
3.5  12 (C,B,8,B,A,7,3,3,3,3) MIL (15-23)
6    13 (E,D,E,D,E,E,D,B,C,C) MIA (12-25)
7.5  14 (D,E,C,E,D,C,B,C,9,E) WAS (11-27)


WESTERN CONFERENCE

1. (1,1,1,1,1,1,4,4,5,4) PHO (28- 8) -+         Lead Division
                                      |-+
8. (8,8,7,7,7,7,5,7,7,9) LAC (20-19) -+ |
                                        |-+
5. (5,5,5,8,9,8,A,8,A,D) SAN (24-13) -+ | |
                                      |-+ |
T3 (4,4,4,4,4,3,1,1,1,1) POR (27-11) -+   |
                                          |--
T3 (3,3,3,3,3,6,3,3,3,3) SEA (27-11) -+   |
                                      |-+ |
6. (7,9,9,5,5,5,7,2,2,7) HOU (22-17) -+ | |
                                        |-+
7. (6,6,8,6,6,4,6,5,6,6) LAL (20-18) -+ |
                                      |-+
2. (2,2,2,2,2,2,2,6,4,2) UTA (25-13) -+         Lead Division
    
Games Behind (sorted by percentage)

GB  Pos  Prior Position        Team
1    9  (9,7,6,9,8,9,B,B,9,A) GOL (19-20)
4.5  10 (A,A,A,A,B,B,9,A,8,5) SAC (15-23)
6.5  11 (B,B,B,B,A,A,8,9,B,C) DEN (13-25)
11   12 (C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,8) MIN ( 7-28)
15.5 13 (D,D,D,D,D,D,D,D,D,B) DAL ( 3-33)


Lottery Update (or, "If the Lottery were today"):

GB  is games out of the playoffs
PP  are the possible places this team will pick
EP  is expected pick (e.g. P(picking first)*1 + P(second)*2 + ...)
    note that this is an expected value, so it merely reflects an average.
    Thus, Sacramento's EXPECTED position is about 7th, although that's not
    a pick they would ever end up with!

GB  Balls Team Record    PP               EP  
1     1    GOL (19-20)	 1,2,3,11       10.548
 .5   2    IND (19-21)	 1,2,3,10,11     9.256
2     3    DET (17-22)	 1,2,3,9,10,11   8.117
2     4    PHI (16-21)	 1,2,3,8,9,10,11 7.111
3.5   5.5  MIL (15-23)	 1,2,3,7,8,9,10  6.227
4.5   5.5  SAC (15-23)	 1,2,3,6,7,8,9   5.456
6.5   7    DEN (13-25)	 1,2,3,5,6,7,8   4.793
6     8    MIA (12-25)	 1,2,3,4,5,6,7   4.233
7.5   9    WAS (11-27)	 1,2,3,4,5,6     3.812
11    10   MIN ( 7-28)	 1,2,3,4,5       3.411
15.5  11   DAL ( 3-33)	 1,2,3,4         3.036


NBA Standings for Tue, Jan 26

                 record      GB    div     conf    home    road   points/game
 EAST
 *Chicago       27 13 0.675  --   10  4   20  9   15  6   12  7   104.7  97.7
 *New_York      24 14 0.632  2     9  3   17  8   16  3    8 11    98.4  93.3
  Cleveland     24 16 0.600  3     9  4   14  9   17  5    7 11   109.2 102.8
  New_Jersey    23 17 0.575  4     8  7   15 12   12  8   11  9   104.2 103.6
  Boston        21 19 0.525  6     8  6   16 13   12  6    9 13   104.4 105.2
  Orlando       17 17 0.500  7     7  7   12 12   11  9    6  8   108.0 105.4
  Atlanta       19 20 0.487  7.5   7  9   13 17   10 11    9  9   104.0 107.2
  Charlotte     18 19 0.486  7.5   4  7   11 13    8  9   10 10   109.9 110.7
  Indiana       19 21 0.475  8     5 10   13 17   11  9    8 12   107.8 106.6
  Detroit       17 22 0.436  9.5   6  8   14 11   11  7    6 15    99.7 101.7
  Philadelphia  16 21 0.432  9.5   7  7   13 15    8 11    8 10   108.5 111.9
  Milwaukee     15 23 0.395 11     6  5   11 12    9 11    6 12   101.4 105.7
  Miami         12 25 0.324 13.5   4  7    7 15    8  9    4 16   100.4 105.2
  Washington    11 27 0.289 15     3  9    7 20    8 11    3 16   103.9 110.5
 WEST
 *Phoenix       28  8 0.778  --   10  4   17  5   13  1   15  7   113.8 107.1
  Seattle       27 11 0.711  2    11  5   20  7   18  1    9 10   108.4 101.4
  Portland      27 11 0.711  2     7  6   17  8   17  4   10  7   109.7 103.8
 *Utah          25 13 0.658  4     9  4   14  9   14  5   11  8   107.6 103.3
  San_Antonio   24 13 0.649  4.5  10  5   15  9   15  4    9  9   107.5 101.7
  Houston       22 17 0.564  7.5   9  3   14 12   13  6    9 11   101.9 101.6
  LA_Lakers     20 18 0.526  9     7  9   14 13   10  9   10  9   101.8 101.8
  LA_Clippers   20 19 0.513  9.5   5  7   10 12   12  7    8 12   106.6 106.0
  Golden_State  19 20 0.487 10.5   4  9   13 10    9  8   10 12   113.9 113.5
  Sacramento    15 23 0.395 14     5  9   10 13   11  9    4 14   108.0 107.4
  Denver        13 25 0.342 16     7  7   10 18   11  7    2 18   103.1 109.0
  Minnesota      7 28 0.200 20.5   4  7    4 19    4 15    3 13    97.5 105.1
  Dallas         3 33 0.083 25     0 13    1 24    3 16    0 17    99.8 116.7
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