Draft lottery

["Raymond DeCampo" <rkdecamp@mailbox.syr.edu>]

Here are the absolutely FINAL probabilities for the 1997 NBA 
draft lottery.  

Pick      Boston       Dallas     Total
- ----      ------       ------     -----
First     27.51%        8.80%    36.31%
Second    11.77%        4.93%    16.70%
Third     16.85%        8.14%    24.98%
Fourth    31.74%           0%    31.74%
Fifth     12.13%           0%    12.13%
Sixth         0%       44.81%    44.81%
Seventh       0%       28.29%    28.29%
Eighth        0%        4.11%     4.11%
Ninth         0%        0.93%     0.93%

In addition I made some special calculations:

Boston and Dallas get the first two picks:  2.97%
Boston and Dallas both in top three:  9.36%
Boston OR Dallas in the top three:  68.63%
Boston OR Dallas in the top two:  50.05%

As I mentioned before Toronto losing the coin toss 
made no appreciable difference.

Ray