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Anthony Tolliver proposes! Congratulations to the new Mr. and Mrs. Tolliver!
Draft Lottery Probabilities
I posted this in the comments in the front page post on the Warriors winning the coin flip with the Wizards, but I'll repost it here. In the chart, a zero with no decimals is a real zero - there's no way for New Jersey to fall past the #5 spot, since only three spots are chosen by lottery. A zero with decimals (ie 0.000) means that the probability is below the three decimal limit I set - it's possible for New Orleans to fall three spots, but it's incredibly unlikely.
Since we only have one more combination than the Wizards, we basically have the same odds of getting into the lottery (hitting the John Wall/Evan Turner sweepstakes), but we have a much better chance of staying in the top 5 (DeMarcus Cousins/Derrick Favors/Wesley Johnson). Plus, in a weird statistical quirk, we have a better chance of landing the #5 pick than they do. The complete odds for the 4/5 slots:
GSW - WAS
1) 10.4 to 10.3
2) 11.2 to 11.1
3) 12.1 to 12.0
4) 9.9 to 0
5) 37.4 to 23.8
6) 17.9 to 34.4
7) 1.5 to 8.3
8) 0 to 0.4
Full size chart: http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2482/draftlottery.png
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