Draft Lottery 4-29-17 NBC 7:30 pm

[spndnchz]

May as well have a place to bitch about it. Lol

 

Numbers come out at 8pm

[thewookie1]

Where's the starting lineups and stuff? :)

[Randall Flagg]

Damn, I get out of work at 8. I'll be home just in time to miss all the fun.

Hischier here we come!

[spndnchz]

Where's the starting lineups and stuff? :)

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/sabres-nhl-draft-lottery-primer/c-289144904

[Beer]

Must win

[bunomatic]

no chance in hell

[Randall Flagg]

no chance in hell

There's actually like a 23% chance in hell

[Mustache of God]

There's actually like a 23% chance in hell

Which, in buffalo terms, is precisely 0%

[bunomatic]

We'll actually move from 6th to 9th 

 

Because Buffalo...

[dudacek]

Hell. Appropriate choice of words when it comes to the lottery.

[I-90 W]

I'll be at my fd annual banquet tonight but I'm counting on you guys to keep me updated ????

[darksabre]

Must win

:lol:

[Sabre fan]

We'll actually move from 6th to 9th 

 

Because Buffalo...

10-4 good buddy...exactly what I was thinking

[French Collection]

May it be our last lottery.

Get the 2nd pick, we seem to attract that number.

[Huckleberry]

We got this one :D

[GoPre]

So glad this topic was started. Almost forgot about it. How crazy would it be if the Sabres won the lottery when not trying to? Let's go B-Lo! Accomplish something for once....

[IKnowPhysics]

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[Rasmus_]

We don't need the #1 pick in this draft, second or third would suffice.  

[IKnowPhysics]

Oh, and just so it's out here, here are the odds for all teams.

 

Buffalo:

1.    7.6%
2.    7.8%
3.    8.0%   (23.4% chance of 1, 2, or 3)
4.    None
5.    None
6.    14.3%   (37.7% chance of staying where we were at 6th or moving up to 1, 2, or 3; 62.3% chance of sliding back at least one spot)
7.    38.2%   (52.5% chance of staying at 6 or sliding back only one spot to 7)
8.    21.4%
9.    2.6%   (24% chance of sliding back more than one spot to 8 or 9)

So about equal 1-in-4ish chance of moving up to 1, 2, 3 as getting hosed back to 8 or 9.  Half a chance of staying put at 6 or moving back one spot- but in that case, it's 2.7-to-1 in favor of sliding back one spot.

 

 

's rigged.

[Huckleberry]

Don't think that adding up the % of each draft spot is really correct but oh well :p

[Scottysabres]

Would be a chuckle if we won it.

[GoPre]

Will this be aired on a particular channel?

Would be a chuckle if we won it.

Yes, yes it would. Hoping for it tonight.

[Stoner]

People poo poo 7.6% odds, but would you have surgery if those were your odds of dying? If you had a 7.6% chance of winning the Powerball, how many tickets would you buy?

[Neo]

The morning of April 29th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.

Great stuff ...

[Thorner]

We haven't been unlucky in lotteries: in the two tank years, it was never at all likely we were gonna win the draw.

 

We haven't, however, been lucky. Maybe this year. I'm drinking Felix Felicis today.