The Race for Homecourt Thread

[ACF]

Jeez, people are awfully critical of somebody else's hard work.  If folks want to supplement FWF's chart with the rankings of other contenders, nothing is stopping them from doing so.

Nice work, FWF, and nicer work still if you keep this up through the regular season.

A to the men, Roy. TP. Also, good job, fwf, TP for you as well.

[BballTim]

Figured it was about the right time this season, we did one last year (for the 4 seed!) and it's a good place to keep track of HCA.

I'll be leaving the Spurs off the list as they're probably uncatchable and who wants to see that anyway?

  I would put the Spurs on the list. Either last night's game was a flukey coincidence or they could be caught (or close to caught) by the time Parker comes back.

[Rondo_is_better]

Oh, do people want the Spurs? I didn't hear....

thanks for a cool thread FWF

[PosImpos]

I don't think anybody meant to criticize the OP or diminish his hard work, but it seems foolhardy and brazen to overlook the two best teams (record-wise) in the West. 

Just because the Lakers are our rivals and we think very highly of them doesn't mean we should take it for granted that we'd face them in the Finals if we were to make it there. 

[ACF]

If folks want to supplement FWF's chart with the rankings of other contenders, nothing is stopping them from doing so.

When christuffa had his Ray Allen Counter thread, I contributed a little bit to update it (okay, very little but still) He didn't ask me to, I just felt like it. So, yeah, add teams if you want to.

[ACF]

7000+ posts and I think this is my first double-post 

[GreenFaith1819]

Informative post, FWF - Thanks!

Here's hoping that as we get players in and back from injury we can increase the likelyhood of HCA throughout the playoffs.

Nothing would please me more than a repeat of Game 6 NBA Finals June 17, 2008!

[Assassin70]

Our tougher games (IMHO) for the rest of this month.

@New Jersey Mar 14.  Don't laugh, back to back game.
@New Oreleans Mar 19.  Tough opponent plus back to back .
@New York Mar 21.   Our fist look @ NY Melo .
March 27 or 28 Pick one.  @Twolves & @Pacers one of them will come to play back to back low level opponent = bad things for us usually.
@San Antonio Mar 31. Tony might be back by then.

[ejk3489]

I don't think anybody meant to criticize the OP or diminish his hard work, but it seems foolhardy and brazen to overlook the two best teams (record-wise) in the West. 

Just because the Lakers are our rivals and we think very highly of them doesn't mean we should take it for granted that we'd face them in the Finals if we were to make it there. 

IDK if you read the whole post by the OP, but the whole point of not including SA was because he didn't think we would be able to catch them. Seems like that's the opposite of overlooking them.

TP, FWF...should be an interesting finish to the season.

[mgent]

W-L (div.)
Spurs:  49-11 (8-4)
Celts:  43-15 (10-1)

We got this.

(Division record doesn't really matter because if we lose to them there's almost no chance we catch them.)

[GoGreen9]

Mavs already beat us twice. Include them.

Spurs might fall back to the pack with Parker out 2-4 weeks. Include them too.

Then I would consider giving a TP.

Well, I'm just glad you took the time to lay out the conditions under which you'd think about making a token gesture.  It's very important to me that I know where I stand on these things.

Anyway, I won't be adding the Spurs unless we get significantly closer; we're still four games back in the loss column and five back overall, but we'll see how things go. 

The Mavs I didn't include because I don't really care about the Mavs; I don't think there's any real chance they get past both the Lakers and the Spurs as they'll likely have to do.  But I guess I can throw them in as the token bannerless franchise.

How can the Mavs be overlooked this easily? I just don't get it.

[fairweatherfan]

Yesterday's results: Celtics give the Suns a cup check on the scoreboard this time, as we knew they would.  What was less expected was the Bulls blowing a 19 point lead at Atlanta.  Nice day in the standings for the Cs.


Thursday, March 3rd

Team                 W - L   GB (Losses Back)
Boston Celtics  44-15     --
Miami Heat        43-17    1.5 (2)
Chicago Bulls    41-18    3 (3)

Tiebreakers:  Boston clinched over Miami, Boston leads 2-1 over Chicago, Chicago clinched over Miami.

Team                 W - L   GB (Losses Back)
Boston Celtics  44-15    --
Dallas Mavs      44-16   .5 (1)
LA Lakers         43-19   2.5 (4)


Tiebreakers: Dallas clinched over Boston.  Boston split head-to-head with LA , but leads in second tiebreaker, conference record - 29-7 vs 25-11.


Today's games: Miami plays at home against Orlando, and we're once again put in the position of having an unusual rooting interest.  Go...Magic?  Feels weird to say it.  

BTW, this is Miami's 2nd game of 11 straight against winning teams.  Go winning teams!

[mgent]

For the record I think div. comes before conf. in the tiebreakers.  Not like LA has any chance of catching us anyway.

[droponov]

DORS: Difficulty of remaining schedule, based on opponent efficiency differential, home or away, and back-to-back situations. The higher the number, the tougher the schedule.

Los Angeles: 0.40 (21th toughest remaining schedule in the league)
San Antonio: 0.21 (19)
Boston: 0.17 (18)
Dallas: 0.15 (17)
Chicago: -0.42 (12)
Miami: -0.65 (8 )



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[BballTim]

DORS: Difficulty of remaining schedule, based on opponent efficiency differential, home or away, and back-to-back situations. The higher the number, the tougher the schedule.

Los Angeles: 0.40 (21th toughest remaining schedule in the league)
San Antonio: 0.21 (19)
Boston: 0.17 (18)
Dallas: 0.15 (17)
Chicago: -0.42 (12)
Miami: -0.65 (8 )



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  Isn't that more like the lowest number = the hardest schedule?