Talk:NBA draft lottery

message: I'm not sure that anyone calls a non-playoff team in the NFL a 'lottery team'.  I'm deleting that blurb.
YoungAristotle 18:17, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually a common term. Enigmamsg 21:48, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: lottery team

message: From an AP article, April 20, 2007, 8:06 PM ET:
"The lottery will be held May 22 to determine the top three picks. The other 11 teams in the lottery will then pick in inverse order of their records." So, all 14 picks would NOT be determined by lottery if this is accurate.
Article is viewable @ http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2007/news/story?id=2844421
:It's always been that way... —MC 22:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Method for 2007? 

message: Is it true that all seven picks in the 1985 lottery were chosen at random?  I thought the lottery then was for only the #1 overall pick. Regardless, whatever year it was that the process was changed so that the top three picks were drawn by lotto (leaving the rest in order of record) needs to be added to the article. I know that change occurred pretty early on (within the first 5-7 years of the lottery. Funnyhat 02:57, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in history section? 

message: I feel that having the 2008 draft odds in Wikipedia is completely out of place - that should be on a fan page, or at least on its own specific page about the 2008 draft, which i also feel is unneeded. if anyone has a problem with this idea, feel free to highlight why, but at this point I feel a deletion is justified. Dudebri1 (talk) 00:44, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of the 2008 Draft Odds 

message: There are actually 1001 possible combinations when 4 balls are drawn from 14 possibilities.
n = 14!/(10! * 4!)
what happened to the extra combination?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.168.231.2 (talk) 11:53, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is listed in the article. "That is, the total of 24,024 (14! / 10!, or 14x13x12x11) possible permutations is reduced by a factor of 24, to 1,001 combinations. Of these, 1 outcome is disregarded and 1,000 outcomes are distributed among the 14 non-playoff NBA teams. The combination 11-12-13-14 (in any order that those numbers are drawn) is not assigned and it is ignored if drawn; this has never occurred in practice."Zhinz (talk) 23:38, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

text: no it would not generate 1000 combinations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 (talk) 17:35, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extra combination 

message: How does the NBA determine which combinations go to the teams?  65.219.250.129 (talk) 13:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NBA draft 

message: OK, so why did the Celtics, who were 1985-86 champions, get second pick in the 1986 NBA Draft??? BigSteve (talk) 17:04, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_NBA_draft  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 (talk) 17:19, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  1986 Celtics 

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message: I'm not sure that there is any value to having the odds calculated to 9 significant digits on the spreadsheet.  This is distracting, making it more difficult to read the important digits quickly, it makes the page too wide, and it is completely irrelevant (the subtleties of the expected odds over one billion NBA drafts mean little when the form of the lottery changes every couple of decades).  I would recommend reverting to 3 significant digits for readability.  23.123.5.59 (talk) 15:25, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Significant Digits On Spreadsheet