An overwhelming majority of Massachusetts residents said they would not want to pay extra to drive to downtown Boston if that meant less traffic, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll. https://t.co/ENCtVwEkrE
Really strange thing going on with backrooms where every single real life person I know who has seen it thought it was bad-meh while every content creator etc I follow online is raving about it
@HEBenjoyer@Ben_Tmeyer The new odds would mean kings go from an avg pick of 5th overall to 7.4th. The expected value goes down by 50% (kind of a fake number but you get the point)! The teams who benefit are seeds 9-16. Good for forcing teams to try, catastrophic for teams who are genuinely bad
@Ben_Tmeyer — depending on winning the lottery, but now they have a significantly lower chance of doing it. And that’s even as one of the teams with the highest odds of winning in the new system
@Ben_Tmeyer — because they have zero valuable pieces on their roster. Today they might be able to trade picks for a quality player, but this system makes their pick 50% less valuable, so they’re either having to package more picks or trade for worse players. Their future is still entirely —