NBA playoff bracketing

[herkulease]

strangely all these years I never noticed. there is no advantage beyond the 1st round to be the #1 seed.

I would assume being #1 gets you to play the lowest ranked seed in each round. like the nfl. but apparently that's not the case.

take the suns this year. the lowest ranked team they'll face in rd #2 would be 5th seed houston, while the spurs could've faced the 6th seeded kings had they not been eliminated.

the bracket they have set up would work out ideally if the highest ranked seeds all won, then #1 would face #4 while #2 face #3.

Odd don't you think?

 

[amol]

Yeah, it is kind of weird ... NBA follows a pre-structured bracket ...

I wish they would change it so that they would structure it after each round

 

[UncleWai]

The reasoning is flawed.
Here, take this example, here's two choices:
choice a: 1% chance you get $1000, 99% chance you get $1
choice b: 50% chance you get $100, 50% chance you get $200

It's like a maxi-min question, even though there's a chance the #2 seed might get to play #7 at the second round, by there's a higher chance they will play the 3rd seed.
So you still want to choose to be first seed.

 

[aplefka]

Kings =

 

[sisq0kidd]

Lakers are gonna take it!

 

[chuckywang]

Same thing could happen in the NCAA Brackets. It's just the way the cookie crumbles.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Same thing could happen in the NCAA Brackets. It's just the way the cookie crumbles.