CarltonTheBear said:
Meant to make a thread for the lottery, our days of tanking in that sense are technically over. ZBBM beat me to it, so I just moved your post to a separate thread.
Here's a video explaining a little bit about the lottery:
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From
BuffaloNews:
Four balls, each numerbed 1-14, are drawn. That four number combination in any order becomes the lottery winner. It is matched with the list of each team's combination and the team that possesses the entry gets the No. 1 pick.
There are 1001 different ways the lottery could play out. The Leafs have 95 of those potential 1001 combinations. Want to see what they are? Here you go:
Memorize those numbers folk, and make sure you go to bed reciting them over and over again.
The thing to remember is, if LAK or BOS win it, it absolutely does not mean the thing was rigged. The laws of probability are such that you should never be surprised if an unexpected outcome happens in response to a particular trial ... that's what randomness means.
You should especially not be surprised if a low-odds outcome happen in cases where the event's trial (in this case, the lottery draw) is run only once. The Law of Large Numbers states that you will, * on average *, get expected outcomes if the trial is run a very large number of times.
So, if the system was such that the NHL ran 1000 lottery draws and then aggregated the totals to see who gets McDavid, and THEN if LAK or BOS won, you might have a legitimate beef as to whether the event was truly random.