Useless Thread MDCCCLX Paul Maurice/Swaggy V./Matthew "Kay-Chuck" Appreciation Thread

[Sega Dreamcast]

How about they stop tweaking the draft lottery every god damned year?

Really feels like bullshit when the odds and eligible teams just change for no apparent reason.

A playoff team won the 1OA in 2020, then they f***ed with the odds the next year and gave the last place team even worse odds.

Then, last year, they made it so only the bottom 11 teams could win the 1OA, giving the last place team a ridiculous 25.5% chance of winning the 1OA. (7% more than the Wings had in 2020, 8.9% more than Buffalo had in 2021.)

The draft lottery is bullshit and Gary Bettman can go lick a roadkill animal's asshole.

 

[Oogie Boogie]

Sounds like a good time to rig the lottery for Chicago or another big market team that has not been doing well lately.

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

Even Yzerman knows the lottery is a bullshit waste-of-time, as evidenced in the past few years by his "I'm here so I don't get fined" energy and complete non-reaction when the Wings unsurprisingly lose.

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

Sounds like a good time to rig the lottery for Chicago or another big market team that has not been doing well lately.

There's a really simple way to completely discredit these rumors, yet they refuse to air the actual lottery.

#ShowUsTheBalls

 

[John Price]

There's a really simple way to completely discredit these rumors, yet they refuse to air the actual lottery.

#ShowUsTheBalls

the excuse is that people taking balls out of the machine multiple times isn't riveting tv

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

the excuse is that people taking balls out of the machine multiple times isn't riveting tv

But pulling a piece of paper out of an envelope is riveting?

It would be like watching The Price is Right, but they don't show us any of the games, and instead they tell us what happened after the fact.

 

[John Price]

They excuse it by saying independent auditors are present

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

They excuse it by saying independent auditors are present

Yeah well they're f***ing stupid for thinking that's an adequate replacement for doing it live

 

[John Price]

The process essentially boils down to this: In an over-crowded room full of stuffy old white people, 14 numbered balls are put into a machine and there are 1000 different possible combinations in which they can be drawn. The team with the worst record is assigned 250 of the 1000 possible combinations (25%), the team with the second worst record is give 199 possible combinations (19.9%), etc. That's how the draft is weighted. So the order of the balls being drawn really doesn't matter, but rather the combinations do. From there you're just waiting for different combinations of the same 14 ping pong balls to be revealed.

I'm sure it's entirely possible to spice it up and make it viewer friendly, but as is, its about as fun as doing your taxes at the DMV.

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

Do these independent auditors work for free?

Why should we trust them?

Is there a way to audit the results?

Doing the lottery off-camera just makes bullshit all the more possible. Show the balls and remove all doubt, it's that easy.

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

No one bitched about the TBA draft in 2020 showing the actual drawing.

In fact, because we got to see the draw, we got the comedy of seeing the Leafs ball bounce on the rim and not go in.

No, I'd much rather see fat and bald Bill Daly open an envelope. So exciting.

 

[John Price]

London mayor wants "clarity" over 64 arrests on coronation day Arrests on King Charles' coronation day amid protests draw call for "urgent clarity" from London mayor

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

@Sega Dreamcast

 

[John Price]

Mike's people have learned comedy

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

Instagram

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

Amassing a following for posting stolen content, isn't social media fun

For f***'s sake, people, don't let Musk being a dipshit distract you from Meta also being irredeemable assholes.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

f***ing L O L at the “Anyone Can Cook…Step By Step!!!” book on Mr. Price’s bookshelf

*chef kisses*

@PanthersPens62

 

[John Price]

just placed a slew of bets for tonight

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

The process essentially boils down to this: In an over-crowded room full of stuffy old white people, 14 numbered balls are put into a machine and there are 1000 different possible combinations in which they can be drawn. The team with the worst record is assigned 250 of the 1000 possible combinations (25%), the team with the second worst record is give 199 possible combinations (19.9%), etc. That's how the draft is weighted. So the order of the balls being drawn really doesn't matter, but rather the combinations do. From there you're just waiting for different combinations of the same 14 ping pong balls to be revealed.

I'm sure it's entirely possible to spice it up and make it viewer friendly, but as is, its about as fun as doing your taxes at the DMV.

That they want to make it needlessly complicated doesn't matter to me. They can do a giant bingo tumbler with 1000 balls in it for all I care.

Viewer-friendly? What, are they trying to figure out how to digitally impose ads directly onto the balls?

Viewer-friendly would be showing us the drawing and not treating us like a bunch of assholes by only telling us the results.

 

[Paul Simonon]

the only person here who cares about @Paul Simonon is @Le Zairafim and only because he shows up in discord like once a month

Sorry, have we met? This seems like an oddly hostile reaction to a total stranger.