2008 BRASS Draft Lottery results

Maybe Paul should have stuck around a while longer? :)

The vacant Happy Valley franchise has secured the 2008 #1 overall Draft pick by winning the BRASS Draft Lottery. The order of selection for the first seven picks in each round is shown in the results report below. The public draft lottery process this year involved the calculation of the sum of random one-digit numbers generated by the shooting percentage results of NBA games.

The method is explained in detail further below the results report that follows.


1. Happy Valley - 171 points
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2/20: Cleveland @ Indiana
4+8+1+4+7+6+6+6+7+4+3+8+3+7+5+9+0+0 = 88
2/22: Atlanta @ Golden State
4+6+7+4+3+5+8+5+2+4+7+9+2+3+1+7+0+6 = 83

2. Olympia - 170 points
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2/20: Chicago @ New Jersey
3+8+1+2+8+6+7+5+0+4+2+9+5+2+6+7+7+8 = 90
2/22: Milwaukee @ Detroit
5+0+0+4+0+0+6+6+7+5+1+7+3+6+8+7+7+8 = 80

3. Meridian - 154 points
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2/20: Atlanta @ Sacramento
4+9+3+5+0+0+7+2+7+4+6+5+5+2+6+8+0+6 = 79
2/22: Sacramento @ Charlotte
4+5+5+5+2+9+7+5+0+4+3+9+4+4+0+7+1+1 = 75

4. Cream City - 153 points
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2/20: Dallas @ New Orleans
4+5+2+2+6+7+8+5+2+4+6+7+5+2+6+7+5+0 = 83
2/22: Denver @ Chicago
4+8+3+3+5+7+7+8+1+5+7+1+5+0+0+6+0+0 = 70

5. Sugar Creek - 145 points
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2/20: New York @ Philadelphia
4+5+9+2+2+7+7+3+3+5+7+0+5+0+0+7+3+1 = 70
2/22: Houston @ New Orleans
4+9+4+3+1+6+7+6+9+4+0+0+1+8+2+5+6+0 = 75

6. Montgomery County - 143 points
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2/20: Orlando @ Toronto
4+5+2+3+2+1+7+8+1+5+8+8+5+5+0+8+8+0 = 80
2/22: Philadelphia @ Orlando
4+5+6+2+3+1+7+5+0+5+1+2+4+5+5+8+0+0 = 63

7. Hoth - 141 points
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2/20: Memphis @ LA Clippers
3+6+4+3+0+0+7+5+0+4+5+0+5+0+0+7+5+9 = 63
2/22: Portland @ Seattle
3+7+2+2+2+2+8+3+3+4+6+2+6+2+5+7+8+6 = 78

2008 Draft Lottery method:

To come up with a "game sum" for the randomly assigned NBA games, you add together the individual digits of the six shooting percentage totals for the game.

Let's say the percentages for a sample game were as follows:

Team #1 Field Goal Pct: .423
Team #1 Point Field Goal Pct: .250
Team #1 Free Throw Pct: .734
Team #2 Field Goal Pct: .430
Team #2 3 Point Field Goal Pct: .290
Team #2 Free Throw Pct: .808

In this case, the sample game shooting would yield the following sum:

4+2+3+2+5+0+7+3+4+4+3+0+2+9+0+8+0+8 = 64

The team who was assigned this game would get 64 points, generated from the sum of 18 randomly occurring numbers at this public event.

To determine the lottery winner you add up the game sums of the two games each team was randomly assigned and the team with the highest combined total gets the overall #1 pick. The tam with the second-highest total picks 2nd, on down to the 7th highest total who selects in the #7 position. This draft order holds true for each round of the 2008 Draft.

The tie-breaker is the team having the game with the best 3-point percentage by any team in either of the two games. If still tied, we use free throw percentage and then overall field goal percentage.