CB Draft Playoff Seeding - Results Thread

[Roy Hobbs]

Okay, results.  47 people voted, total.

The breakdown was as follows:

Eastern Conference Division Winners

1. New Jersey 1.69
2. Orlando 1.89
3. Detroit 2.42

Eastern Conference Playoff Teams

4. New York 3.45
5. Charlotte 4.52
6. Atlanta 4.75
7. Chicago 4.89
8. Cleveland 5.77

Eastern Conference Lottery Teams

9. Philadelphia 5.80
10. Toronto 6.07
11. Boston 6.95
12. Indiana 8.68
13. Washington 8.95
14. Milwaukee 8.98
15. Miami 9.18

Western Conference Division Winners

1. Portland 1.59
2. Golden State 2.13
3. Dallas 2.28

Western Conference Playoff Teams

4. Los Angeles 4.17
5. Utah 4.48
6. Denver 5.09
7. Minnesota 5.36
8. San Antonio 5.76

Western Conference Lottery Teams

9t. Houston 5.96
9t. Phoenix 5.96
11. Las Vegas 6.15
12. Memphis 7.83
13. Sacramento 8.35
14. Oklahoma City 9.41
15. New Orleans 9.50

[Roy Hobbs]

Wow...  some crazy results there.

I'm shocked that Houston, Philly, and Phoenix all missed the playoffs.  I had all of them in my top eight, for sure.  I think when I published my earlier update of the raw scores, they were each in the playoffs, so the later rounds of voting definitely made some drastic changes in the final results.

Kobe alone seemed to lift the Bulls to a #7 seed.  I think that's fair, but I think a lot of people will disagree.

It was surprising how bunched up all the teams were; there are the clearly good and clearly not as good teams at the end of the spectrum in either Conference, but the middle seeds could have easily gone up or down a number of rankings.

I was a bit surprised by the strong support that Utah and Denver got.  Obviously, both are good teams, but they seemed to march to the top of the voting almost immediately, and stay there.

I'm a little surprised that the Eastern Conference was a two horse race; I figured Detroit would challenge for best of the best, but they didn't get a lot of support.

Those are my thoughts for now.  Some wacky voting, for sure, but definitely fun.

[kw10]

Whhhaaaaa
[dang]!
Oh well, it was fun...

[Roy Hobbs]

I think another thing that this clearly shows is that our members buy into the "superstar theory".  Teams with one or more superstars did very well in the voting; those without one fared more poorly.

[Scribbles]

Wow...  some crazy results there.

I'm shocked that Houston, Philly, and Phoenix all missed the playoffs.  I had all of them in my top eight, for sure.  I think when I published my earlier update of the raw scores, they were each in the playoffs, so the later rounds of voting definitely made some drastic changes in the final results.

Kobe alone seemed to lift the Bulls to a #7 seed.  I think that's fair, but I think a lot of people will disagree.

It was surprising how bunched up all the teams were; there are the clearly good and clearly not as good teams at the end of the spectrum in either Conference, but the middle seeds could have easily gone up or down a number of rankings.

I was a bit surprised by the strong support that Utah and Denver got.  Obviously, both are good teams, but they seemed to march to the top of the voting almost immediately, and stay there.

I'm a little surprised that the Eastern Conference was a two horse race; I figured Detroit would challenge for best of the best, but they didn't get a lot of support.

Those are my thoughts for now.  Some wacky voting, for sure, but definitely fun.

Wow interesting.  I had the Suns and Houston in as well.  I'll admit I called my bro up and told him to vote for Utah  and I think he voted my team #1. I gave myself a 2 if I remember right. I also had Toronto much higher than they ended up. 

I wonder if there were any loop hole picks were someone was looking to get a higher seed or get into the playoffs and voted the rebuilding teams much higher than they were to get thier spot while also low balling a quality team?   

I guess the only things left to do are predict the winners of each bracket and possibily put this on some sort of simulation game to see how things shake out from here. 

[celticmaestro]

Stunned about Houston, Jsaad wont be happy.

As for Vegas, I thought we were actually better than 3 teams above us. Not too worried though, as I've said before that our goal is to build a team to win in the future, not right now.

My prediction is the Nets sweep the Blazers. Not a dig at the Blazers, I just think the Nets are better. Next year though, maybe the Blazers take it. They better, because after that the Lakers are going to clean up.

[Kwhit10]

Wow I'm really shocked.  I thought I was the 5th best team in the east at least.

Extremely surprised on Phoenix and Houston as well.  I guess people don't take into account deep benches.  But whatever, I guess teams with one good player and no bench can make the playoffs here.

It also amazes me how some of the lesser teams averaged so high and bunched with other teams that shouldn't be in the same class.

[ChampKind]

Yesssss.  Suck it, Philly!  By arbitrary vote, my team is .03 better than you!  Bring on the Nets!

JSaad's head is going to explode when he sees his team missed the playoffs.  I think that was a huge mistake.  Maybe some voters deliberately voted him down after all the talking he did about his team.  Other than that, I have no explanation about how his team isn't at least a playoff team.

[jgod213]

I can't wait to hear the responses to this thread...

Agreed that Jsaad might of hurt his own cause by talking himself up so much, hell it probably factored into my scoring for him, but i still had him making the playoffs.

Despite the controversies, i'm not upset by the results at all (was hoping Indi could sneak an 8th seed, oh well).  I think it's pretty cool that things didn't quite turn out the way we assumed they would, and you can most certainly make a case for all the teams that made the playoffs.  i just hope that people didn't deliberately sabotage the seedings by dropping a team like Pheonix to 12 in order to bump their team up a slot.  I mean we're probably all guilty of it to a degree, but i hope no one did anything that drastic.

[Edgar]

I think Houston is easyly 4th seeded in the whole west
oh well
I am

nice job fun offseason
Now
HEY CS PLAY SOME BALL!!!
And fellows mods this year in fantasy I will kick your behinds again and miss the championship in semis just like last year.

[bdm860]

Can we throw (yet another) poll at the top of this thread?  Actually I'd like to see a couple, who got robbed, who overachieved the most.

Can't believe people slept on Philly.  They might not be the sexiest team, but that defense will definitely shut some teams down.  I had them ranked pretty high.  Just glad I don't have to face them in the playoffs, but that is a good team.  I thought people were saying the Atlantic was one of the best divisions, but they only got 2 teams in the playoffs.  I though Philly, Toronoto, and Boston were all playoff caliber teams, as well as Houston and Phoenix in the West.  Of course I probably feel there are 9-10 playoff teams in each conference, so someone has got to be left out.

At first I thought the Lakers had really overachied, then I realized the #4 team in the West was the Clippers and not the Lakers. 
Surprised to see Cleveland sneak into the playoffs.  But I think the Angry Pickles overachieved the most finishing higher than I expected them to (don't worry Redz that's a joke, I actually had them sleighted 2nd to last).

Now someone needs to throw these teams into Live, 2k, and some text based simulators and see how the teams finish there.  It would probably be very different I'm guessing.  Can't wait to see those results.

[indeedproceed]

I think my squad dropped because people didn't believe in Nene, didn't really look at my bench, and didn't really value Brandon Roy or Caron Butler as top tier players. I really think my team is a playoff team, kind of a mix of skiles bulls and the wizards. Jsaad no doubt hurt his team by complaining, but I don't think the rockets are outta the playoffs.

I think Utah could take the west also. They were my #2 playoff seed there.

Look for a thread calling out you buncha jabroni's to an NBA2k9 online association in october. I ain't scurred.

[Redz]

Oklahoma City fans chanting in unison:

WE'RE NOT THE WORST!  WE'RE NOT THE WORST!

[Evantime34]

So what happens next? Do we vote on the individual playoff match ups until we have a champion or do we vote on the team with the brightest future? Has anyone entered the teams into a simulation yet?

[StartOrien]

Why does this end before the season starts?