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From: charlie@nbires.UUCP (Charles Carrington)
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Subject: Re: Dynasty
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Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 15:39:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 19 15:39:13 1985
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The following was written by David A. Kosower:
>
>...incorrect assumption that all three
>major teams have an equal shot at the title.  

Obviously, the rest of the teams in the league are "minor" teams and have
no business sweating in the same gym with the any one of the Holy Trinity.
 
>...only
>one of Boston and Philly can appear in the final, while the Lakers have a
>virtual bye.

It must get terribly boring and tiresome for those poor Lakers to have to
play 82 games each year against "minor" teams to achieve their "virtual bye".

>Thus, in any given year, the Lakers have a 50%, not
>33% chance of winning the title IF the championship series were to
>be decided, say, by a coin toss... one would therefore EXPECT the
>Lakers to have won 3 titles, and Boston and Philly 1.5 each -- which
>is in fact pretty much what has happened.

Well, there you have it.  Why haven't we thought of this before?  There is
no reason at all to go through the charade of playing a full season of
regular season games.  After all, no team outside the Holy Trinity is worthy
of competing for the title, anyway.  It is sad and uselessly cruel to raise
the hopes of all those other teams every year.

Instead, we should just re-form the league into three teams.  Give the Lakers
an automatic bye in the West, and have a 7 game Boston-Philly series in the
East to determine the finalist.  The statistical distribution of championships
among the teams in the league would remain unchanged, but we could get the
whole season taken care of in, say, three or four weeks!