Re: Draft lottery

["Richard & Cynthia Davies" <davies.design@worldnet.att.net>]

Nice work, Alex.

Of course, even if we got a top three pick, it wouldn't matter. I'm sure our
list experts and future NBA coaches would want to trade him if he didn't
bring us a title next year.

Rich D.
(sarcasm, folks)

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>From: Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>
>To: celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Draft lottery
>Date: Fri, May 7, 1999, 11:05 PM
>

> The Celtics won the tiebreaker with Dallas and will have the seventh
> position in the lottery with 37 lottery chances out of 1000. I ran
> a simulation and came up with the following (approximate) probabilities,
> based on one million trials:
>   1st 3.7%
>   2nd   4.3%
>   3rd   5.0%
> In total, a 13.0% chance of snaring a top 3 pick.
>
> Alex
>