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How should I do this draft lottery?
« on: March 17, 2010, 09:24:38 AM »

Offline JSD

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I need help.

Team 1 - 30%
Team 2 - 20%
Team 3 - 15%
Team 4 - 8%
Team 5 - 7%
Team 6 - 6%
Team 7 - 5%
Team 8 - 4%
Team 9 - 3%
Team 10 - 2%

Above is the breakdown of percentages of the 1st pick. I guess I'm looking for a simulator that will run these percentages for the first pick and until the last pick is assigned. Does anyone know of a simulator for something like this?

Re: How should I do this draft lottery?
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2010, 09:28:37 AM »

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I need help.

Team 1 - 30%
Team 2 - 20%
Team 3 - 15%
Team 4 - 8%
Team 5 - 7%
Team 6 - 6%
Team 7 - 5%
Team 8 - 4%
Team 9 - 3%
Team 10 - 2%

Above is the breakdown of percentages of the 1st pick. I guess I'm looking for a simulator that will run these percentages for the first pick and until the last pick is assigned. Does anyone know of a simulator for something like this?
I think ESPN has one

http://espn.go.com/nba/lottery2010/mockdraft
Pick 2 Knicks

PG: George Hill, Ty Lawson
SG: Ray Allen, Anthony Parker, Quentin Richardson
SF: Grant Hill, Matt Barnes, D
PF: Zach Randolph, Kenyon Martin, Jon Brockman, Dante Cunningham
C:  Nene Hilario,   Own rights: Nikola Pekovic IR: Kyle Weaver

Re: How should I do this draft lottery?
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2010, 09:45:45 AM »

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I can't change the percentages.

Re: How should I do this draft lottery?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2010, 11:03:16 AM »

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Re: How should I do this draft lottery?
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 11:48:30 AM »

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I know you can do it with not much trouble in java if you have any programming experience. I know I have done something similar to this on excel but I can quite remember how. I'm going to look online to try to jog my memory. I'll get back to you later.
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Re: How should I do this draft lottery?
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2010, 12:38:01 PM »

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I know you can do it with not much trouble in java if you have any programming experience. I know I have done something similar to this on excel but I can quite remember how. I'm going to look online to try to jog my memory. I'll get back to you later.

no programming experience and I wouldn't have any idea how to do that in Excel. Thanks for checking up though, appreciate it.

Re: How should I do this draft lottery?
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2010, 12:49:53 PM »

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one very low tech way would be to go to excel and print up Team 1 30 times, team 2 20 times...etc then cut up the slips and throw them in a hat.

I actually have done this for a hoops league draft lottery.  I save the numbers in an envelope and reuse them year after year (the trick is remembering where they are)
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Re: How should I do this draft lottery?
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2010, 01:00:47 PM »

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I got it Jsaad

http://www.random.org/lists/

Copy and paste this list into the form on that link.  Eliminate duplicates if they pop up in the top 10.

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Team 8 - 4%
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Team 8 - 4%
Team 9 - 3%
Team 9 - 3%
Team 9 - 3%
Team 10 - 2%
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Yup

Re: How should I do this draft lottery?
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2010, 01:50:48 PM »

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I got it Jsaad

http://www.random.org/lists/

Copy and paste this list into the form on that link.  Eliminate duplicates if they pop up in the top 10.

Team 1 - 30%
Team 1 - 30%
Team 1 - 30%
Team 1 - 30%
Team 1 - 30%
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Team 4 - 8%
Team 4 - 8%
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Team 5 - 7%
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Team 6 - 6%
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Team 8 - 4%
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Team 9 - 3%
Team 9 - 3%
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Team 10 - 2%
Team 10 - 2%


Redz, you are the man.

Re: How should I do this draft lottery?
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2010, 02:00:02 PM »

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I got it Jsaad

http://www.random.org/lists/

Copy and paste this list into the form on that link.  Eliminate duplicates if they pop up in the top 10.

Team 1 - 30%
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Team 4 - 8%
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Team 8 - 4%
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Team 9 - 3%
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Team 10 - 2%
Team 10 - 2%


Redz, you are the man.

That site is the cat's meow  ;)
Yup