2012 Standings Predictions Games

carlosthedwarf · Post #21 » by **carlosthedwarf** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:30 am

I completely forgot what I put for mine. I should check them before the weekend.

giberish · Post #22 » by **giberish** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:33 am

Houston just moved up several spots.

Coxy · Post #23 » by **Coxy** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:08 am

giberish wrote:Houston just moved up several spots.

Several?

No.

ChuckDurn · Post #24 » by **ChuckDurn** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:43 pm

Coxy wrote:
giberish wrote:Houston just moved up several spots.

Several?

No.

Agreed. Unless the definition of "several" is 1.

dankchops · Post #25 » by **dankchops** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:21 am

giberish wrote:Houston just moved up several spots.

Post #26 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:34 pm

Because timing on such things is always great, the app appears to be not working. I think my provider changed something out from under me, and I'm trying to track it down.

EDIT: And it appears to be working again. I sent them a note/complaint, I never heard anything back yet, but it suddenly started working again.

No More Lottery · Post #27 » by **No More Lottery** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:49 pm

Is it just me or does it seem so difficult for the following when filling out the order:

EAST: How to rank the crappy lower 10 teams? Only 5 seem worthy of playoff contention...
WEST: How to rank the best 10 teams? Only 5 seem worthy of ping pong balls...

Way more competition in the West (as usual I guess), but its even harder to predict the crappiest teams in the East.

Doesn't look great again for us dubs fans. The rich get richer, but the middle class just expanded in the West too.

BW32 · Post #28 » by **BW32** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:44 pm

Went full optimistic and put the Warriors 7th, as every year I will probably regret it.

KevinMcreynolds · Post #29 » by **KevinMcreynolds** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:40 am

BW32 wrote:Went full optimistic and put the Warriors 7th, as every year I will probably regret it.

I have them 8th even with me expecting Curry to miss significant time at some point. I don't see Dallas as a factor anymore, and Minnesota's season is already over imo.

giberish · Post #30 » by **giberish** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:43 am

I moved GS up to 8th over Dallas and Minny - I figure it's a health battle between the 3 teams.

That's better than having a guy make $20M/yr and yet, when he's out for 6 weeks noone thinks it makes your team any worse.

Post #31 » by **floppymoose** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:01 am

ChuckDurn wrote:
Coxy wrote:
giberish wrote:Houston just moved up several spots.

Several?

No.

Agreed. Unless the definition of "several" is 1.

I actually moved them up two spots. But I had them very close to two other teams before, so adding Harden pushed them past.

KevinMcreynolds · Post #32 » by **KevinMcreynolds** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:37 am

Houston has too many rookies and 2nd year guys in their rotation to compete right now.

Post #33 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:29 pm

And with the season upon us, things have locked down. Some data on the predictions we got this year. Let's see if our crowd has wisdom.

Western Conference (33 predictions)

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Name              Average Rank
Oklahoma City     1.5758
LA Lakers         1.8182
San Antonio       3.0606
LA Clippers       4.2424
Denver            5.3636
Memphis           5.7879
Golden State      7.6667
Dallas            8.7576
Utah              9.0303
Minnesota         9.1212
Portland          11.2424
Houston           11.9394
Phoenix           13.0000
New Orleans       13.1515
Sacramento        14.2424

Eastern Conference (29 predictions)

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Name           Average Rank
Miami          1.0000
Boston         3.3103
Indiana        3.4483
New Jersey     4.7241
Philadelphia   5.2759
Chicago        5.8276
New York       6.0690
Atlanta        7.4828
Milwaukee      9.4483
Toronto        10.8621
Cleveland      11.1724
Washington     11.4138
Detroit        11.7241
Orlando        13.9310
Charlotte      14.3103

anchorman123 · Post #34 » by **anchorman123** » Sat Nov 3, 2012 6:16 am

After watching them play, I'm thinking 10th.

oaktownwarriors87 · Post #35 » by **oaktownwarriors87** » Sat Nov 3, 2012 3:58 pm

My predictions are outdated. Wish i could have bumped Houston up after the Harden trade and bumped Minnesota down after the Love injury. Oh well, I'll still win.

GSForever · Post #36 » by **GSForever** » Mon Nov 5, 2012 11:38 pm

Dubs never get any love! Once again they get dissed in the power rankings #21.

curryshimmy · Post #37 » by **curryshimmy** » Tue Nov 6, 2012 10:22 pm

I think if Dubs stay healthy we can grab an 8 seed. Heat win it all again, Lakers out in second round

Post #38 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 5:23 pm

I think I now have a pretty good guess why the site for the game periodically becomes unavailable, no thanks to my provider. It'll take some coding to fix/work around it, but I'll try to get to it sometime soon.

Post #39 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:08 pm

Okay. I think I've fixed things, so if anyone has trouble accessing the game now, let me know.

For the geeky among you, here is what I think the problem was. I wrote this a while ago under PHP4. It is now running under PHP5. It was using the Pear DB extension for database access. My provider decided not to support the Pear extensions anymore for security reasons, but the extension was still available... sometimes. My site is served by a grid of hosts, and my suspicion now is that the DB extension was removed on some but not all of the grid. So sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't. I upgraded to a new, more PHP5-friendly, database interface, so I think we'll be all set.

Post #40 » by **floppymoose** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:06 pm