***Our Annual - Predict The Heat 2017-2018 Regular Season***

Post #41 » by **QUIZ** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:36 am

46 wins

Will post the rest later.

RexBoyWonder · Post #42 » by **RexBoyWonder** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:34 pm

Last couple of days to post your predictions!

Don't be scared homie.

RexBoyWonder · Post #43 » by **RexBoyWonder** » Sun Oct 15, 2017 8:39 pm

Locking things up, no future editing trying to re-write your chitty predictors :

2017-2018 PREDECTIONS SO FAR :

MartyConlonJr : 58 wins, Finals loss to Golden State Warriors 1-4
IceColdCubano - 50 wins, ECF losing to Cleveland in 6
contract - 48 wins, Getting swept by the Warriors in the NBA Finals
Dr_Heat - 51
Zasterror - 46 wins, confident we can take on anyone in the East besides the Cavs
eddieheatfan - 42 wins, booted out of the first round.meltdowns ensue :naaa:

SCHeat - 46 wins, Lose game 7 to the raptors again
Sgt P - 53 wins, losing the GSW in the finals
miamivice - 49 wins
stilldropin20 - 47 wins, ECF. go 7 games against either cleveland or boston. possible finals appearance
Cmon_Son-_- - 46 wins, 2nd round if we're 6th seed or higher
Feel_the_Heat15 - 62 wins, Finals, GSW beats us in 6
Rastas - 43 wins
Chalm Down - 46 wins
GlenRiceARoni - 48 wins, Losing to the Hornets in 6. First round
Mos_Heat - 47 wins, 2nd round
gom - 44 wins, We finish 7th and knock off the Celtics or Raptors (whoever is 2nd). We beat Bucks in the second round. Eliminated by Lebron unfortunately in the ECF
BaDaBo - 48 wins, With some luck Eastern conference finals, but more likely out in the second round to either Boston or Cleveland
DayofMourning - 52 wins
HeatFanLifer - 47 wins, Second round elimination in a hard fought series
RexBoyWonder - 50 wins, We'll upset the Celtics in semi-finals, but fall short to Cavs in eastern finals
QUIZ- 46 wins

A few notable posters haven't given their full predictions yet, so next couple of days are the last chance to post yours.

Will post in order form most optimist to least later. I do believe Eddie no caps is the biggest non-believer so far.

goodboy · Post #44 » by **goodboy** » Sun Oct 15, 2017 8:48 pm

52 wins.

Making it to the 2nd round of the post-season.

dolphinatik · Post #45 » by **dolphinatik** » Sun Oct 15, 2017 9:29 pm

1) How many wins will the Heat have in the 2017-2018 season? 46

2) Will we make the playoffs this year? If yes - what seed will we be? 5

3) Who will be our top 4 leading scorers, and what will their PPG be? Dragon 21, Tj 18, Hassan 17, Dion 18

4) Who will be our best overall new addition (new at Miami)? Liggins

5) Who will be our best overall young player (not including Whiteside)? JRich

6) Which player will make the biggest improvement from last year? JRich

7) Who will be the biggest disappointment? Winslow

8) What trades will we end up doing during the year (or even before the season starts)? We trade Ellington/White

9) What will be the biggest surprise of the season? (positive or negative or both)Bam injury frustration, lack of play time

10) What will our board posters write about Spo once this season is over? Posters will be more positive than negative for once on Spo

11) Predict a nice/interesting statistical nugget you can see happening with the team or a player. Heat top 5 NBA in 3pt attempts

12) Predict the weirdest moment of the season. Bam gets a 20 point game followed by DNP

13) Predict a RealGM Heat-board development you expect to see with a long time poster/s.

14) What will you consider a success/failure this year? One star emerges other than Whiteside/Dragon

15) What will be the biggest factor to impact our success or failure this year? tempo, how loose relaxed we are, players having fun playing loose

HeatFanLifer · Post #46 » by **HeatFanLifer** » Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:30 pm

Season starts Wednesday.

There's a news story on Facebook that Iggie will make a trophy of gold in the shape of your avatar if you are most accurate with your predictions. Major news outlets are already tweeting this story as well.

Post #47 » by **IggieCC** » Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:41 pm

49 wins

Post #48 » by **BFRESH44** » Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:43 pm

47-35. Eastern Semi Finals exit.

LordRiley · Post #49 » by **LordRiley** » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:14 pm

48 Wins, second round exit.

RexBoyWonder · Post #50 » by **RexBoyWonder** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 3:21 pm

In order :

Feel_the_Heat15 - 62 wins
MartyConlonJr : 58 wins

Sgt P - 53 wins
HeatWillRise - 52 wins
DayofMourning - 52 wins
Dr_Heat - 51
IceColdCubano - 50 wins
RexBoyWonder - 50 wins
miamivice - 49 wins
IggieCC - 49 wins
contract - 48 wins
GlenRiceARoni - 48 wins
BaDaBo - 48 wins
LordRiley - 48 wins
Mos_Heat - 47 wins
HeatFanLifer - 47 wins
stilldropin20 - 47 wins
BFRESH44 - 47 wins
Cmon_Son-_- - 46 wins
Chalm Down - 46 wins
Zasterror - 46 wins
SCHeat - 46 wins
QUIZ- 46 wins
dolphinatik - 46 wins

gom - 44 wins
Rastas - 43 wins
eddieheatfan - 42 wins

"Eddie Buzzkill" and "feel_the_hype" ain't about that treadmill life.

We shall see.

Edit : Average win predection of Heat boaed posters : 48.5 wins.

contract · Post #51 » by **contract** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 4:35 pm

Everyone so far has predicted a > .500 season.

No gloom ... no doom!

BadMofoPimp · Post #52 » by **BadMofoPimp** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 5:13 pm

I will go 50 wins.

Harjo · Post #53 » by **Harjo** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:48 pm

1) How many wins will the Heat have in the 2017-2018 season?

47 Wins

2) Will we make the playoffs this year? If yes - what seed will we be?

5th

3) Who will be our top 4 leading scorers, and what will their PPG be?

Whiteside (17 ppg) - Dragic (18 ppg) - Waiters (17 ppg) - T.Johnson (15 ppg)

4) Who will be our best overall new addition (new at Miami)?

Olynyk

5) Who will be our best overall young player (not including Whiteside)?

Waiters

6) Which player will make the biggest improvement from last year?

J-Rich

7) Who will be the biggest disappointment?

James Johnson

8) What trades will we end up doing during the year (or even before the season starts)?

Either T.Johnson for salary, or no trade and go for buyout market.

9) What will be the biggest surprise of the season? (positive or negative or both)

Waiters playing All-Star level

10) What will our board posters write about Spo once this season is over?

Use Bam more Spo!

11) Predict a nice/interesting statistical nugget you can see happening with the team or a player.

Top 3 defensive team, top 5 three points

12) Predict the weirdest moment of the season.

4-guard lineups

13) Predict a RealGM Heat-board development you expect to see with a long time poster/s.

Hmm

14) What will you consider a success/failure this year?

Success - Good development of young players, at least an All-Star and a good run in the PO
Failure - The opposite of the above

15) What will be the biggest factor to impact our success or failure this year?

The team hunger and desire to get better

goodboy · Post #54 » by **goodboy** » Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:06 am

Eddie MVP of this thread

MartyConlonJr · Post #55 » by **MartyConlonJr** » Sat Jan 6, 2018 4:18 am

MartyConlonJr wrote:11) Predict a nice/interesting statistical nugget you can see happening with the team or a player.
Best distribution of scoring - i.e. 8 people or so averaging double figures, maybe more people depending on health (e.g. if Waiters plays 40 games again, then other guards will get more mins and starts etc)

Slight bump as I heard this tonights telecast - only team in the league with 8 x 10 ppg scorers

HeatFanLifer · Post #56 » by **HeatFanLifer** » Sat Jan 6, 2018 4:36 am

MartyConlonJr wrote:
MartyConlonJr wrote:11) Predict a nice/interesting statistical nugget you can see happening with the team or a player.
Best distribution of scoring - i.e. 8 people or so averaging double figures, maybe more people depending on health (e.g. if Waiters plays 40 games again, then other guards will get more mins and starts etc)

Slight bump as I heard this tonights telecast - only team in the league with 8 x 10 ppg scorers

Nice!

You also said tho Heat are going to the finals and winning 58 games. Hope you're right.

MartyConlonJr · Post #57 » by **MartyConlonJr** » Sat Jan 6, 2018 8:04 am

HeatFanLifer wrote:
MartyConlonJr wrote:
MartyConlonJr wrote:11) Predict a nice/interesting statistical nugget you can see happening with the team or a player.
Best distribution of scoring - i.e. 8 people or so averaging double figures, maybe more people depending on health (e.g. if Waiters plays 40 games again, then other guards will get more mins and starts etc)

Slight bump as I heard this tonights telecast - only team in the league with 8 x 10 ppg scorers

Nice!

You also said tho Heat are going to the finals and winning 58 games. Hope you're right.

I really bought the 2nd half 2016-2017 30-11

We'd have to go 37-7 the rest of the way haha.

In my defense we've had a lot more injuries than I was expecting and I hinged a lot on the Dion-Dragic drive and kick offense and Dion is pretty much a no-show this season.

HeatFanLifer · Post #58 » by **HeatFanLifer** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 5:14 am

RexBoyWonder wrote:In order :

Feel_the_Heat15 - 62 wins
MartyConlonJr : 58 wins

Sgt P - 53 wins
HeatWillRise - 52 wins
DayofMourning - 52 wins
Dr_Heat - 51
IceColdCubano - 50 wins
RexBoyWonder - 50 wins
miamivice - 49 wins
IggieCC - 49 wins
contract - 48 wins
GlenRiceARoni - 48 wins
BaDaBo - 48 wins
LordRiley - 48 wins
Mos_Heat - 47 wins
HeatFanLifer - 47 wins
stilldropin20 - 47 wins
BFRESH44 - 47 wins
Cmon_Son-_- - 46 wins
Chalm Down - 46 wins
Zasterror - 46 wins
SCHeat - 46 wins
QUIZ- 46 wins
dolphinatik - 46 wins

gom - 44 wins
Rastas - 43 wins
eddieheatfan - 42 wins

"Eddie Buzzkill" and "feel_the_hype" ain't about that treadmill life.

We shall see.

Edit : Average win predection of Heat boaed posters : 48.5 wins.

With 12 games left, Heat are 37-33.

Anyone who chose 50 wins is eliminated. Lowest amount of wins was rastas at 43. Heat would have to go 6-6 for that win total.

Edit: my mistake, did not recognize Eddieheatfan in the blue font. Heat would need to go 5-7 for his projection.

RexBoyWonder · Post #59 » by **RexBoyWonder** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:31 am

If things goes as expected and we dont step up or fall apart - we're just in pace to reach the average estimationof 48.5 wins. Might fall a couple of games short of that.

HeatFanLifer · Post #60 » by **HeatFanLifer** » Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:43 am

So... anyone above 47 wins is eliminated (Iggie).

The Heat stand at 41-35. 6 games left in season. 4 against bad teams, 1 after that against a desperate Western Conf team (OKC) and the final game against a team likely with no incentive to win. Predictions stood at 42, 43 wins (not likely), 44, 46 wins (possibility), and 47 wins (also not likely). Maybe Heat end up with 45 wins and we were all wrong?