trellaine201
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No question about that. Otherwise they would show it LIVE.They have to rig it to help the suffering markets
No question about that. Otherwise they would show it LIVE.They have to rig it to help the suffering markets
No wonder Chicago got Bedard. They've struggled so mightily over the last 15 yearsThey have to rig it to help the suffering markets
So in your oppinion, finishing 6th should have the same chances as barely missing the playoffs. All this while finishing 5th would double the chances and finishing 4th would triple the chances of the #6 spot.
The main reason why you need many balls is the fact that otehrwise the chances at the bottom change way too much. In the current system, the difference between #2 and #5 is about 40% more chances for #2, in your system would be 2.5 times higher chances for #2....
You could simply give 1 ball to 16th, 2 to 15th, 3 to 14th and so on. Still much better than number combos.
Pens are in need to another saviour--we know it is coming
Welcome to 1993! Time to build a hopper to fit 136 balls.
Wouldn't need to be that big. Even now with the balls the do have they leave plenty of space.
It's really kinda amusing that you think this is the solution. The NBA realized 30 years ago that it wasn't.
Why? It is simple and works. There is no need for a complicated system, when the whole point of the entry draft is for the teams that are bad to get top picks.
The results revealed during the broadcast were actually determined about two hours earlier in an alternate location attended by Major League Baseball officials, an independent auditor from PricewaterhouseCoopers who ensured the integrity of the procedure and a pool reporter, J.J. Cooper of Baseball America. Just like the events conducted for years in the NBA and NHL, a case of ping pong balls, numbered 1-14, were loaded into a lottery machine manufactured by Smartplay.
Each MLB team that missed the 2022 postseason was assigned a series of four-number combinations to be drawn from the machine. The 1,001 possible sequences were distributed according to win-loss record, ranging from clubs like Washington (55-107), Oakland (60-102) and Pittsburgh (62-100) which each held 16.5 percent or 165 of the combinations, to Milwaukee (86-76), which had just two. (The 1,001st combination is not assigned to any team.)
You could simply give 1 ball to 16th, 2 to 15th, 3 to 14th and so on. Still much better than number combos.
There, corrected that for you. Having McDavid in Toronto would have done little to achieve what the NHL has wanted for 40+ years: getting sustained attention and interest in the US market. Crosby and Ovie certainly helped, but Connor may go down as the greatest player in history. The largest markets that had a chance of getting him was Arizona at 3 and Philly at 7. Arizona would have been a consideration; it might have put them over the top in getting a new arena built and cementing them there for the long term, and it is the 12th largest media market in the country. It could draw expansion hockey and expansion interest from closer geographic areas (Houston, San Diego, San Franscisco, Vegas which didn't have a team yet) which may be the largest unrealized growth area that the NHL has in North America.Yeah, if the NHL was rigging lotteries McDavid is probably inTorontoArizonaPhiladelphia, and Matthews is probably in Arizona or the Leafs win one of the Stamkos/Tavares lottos.
Either way, if you think a big 4 Accounting firm is going to risk its reputation for the NHL, I don't know what to tell people who think that.
They aren't going to boost TV ratings by televising the behind the scenes number draws. Plus there are probably some secrets the company they contract to has that they don't want potential competitors to know. It's a secretive process, but not for the reasons the consipiracy minded think.
Has a date for the lottery been announced yet?
If you really want to add intrigue to it move it to the day of the draft!!
Wasn't it done live during the Lafreniere draft ?
Didn’t they try the balls once, and the machine jammed on the NYR’s.
It's boring TV and, even live, people would still think it's fixed.
They aren't going to boost TV ratings by televising the behind the scenes number draws. Plus there are probably some secrets the company they contract to has that they don't want potential competitors to know. It's a secretive process, but not for the reasons the consipiracy minded think.