4 minutes ago, periphery831 said:

Are we losing these remaining games on purpose to stay in front of the Nationals for the draft?

Nats and Orioles are both locked into pick ten and above...Sox competing with Twins.

8 hours ago, periphery831 said:

Are we losing these remaining games on purpose to stay in front of the Nationals for the draft?

The Sox have already locked up the best odds for the #1 pick unless they miraculously win out to end this season. Were safe.

10 hours ago, periphery831 said:

Are we losing these remaining games on purpose to stay in front of the Nationals for the draft?

The odds don't change if you are 30th, 29th, or 28th as a team.

Because this is a Reinsdorf outfit, feels like the Sox will end up picking 7th just like they did all those years they tried to tank under Gar and AKME lol.  Just consistently fucked by the odds they try to play by 

20 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

Because this is a Reinsdorf outfit, feels like the Sox will end up picking 7th just like they did all those years they tried to tank under Gar and AKME lol.  Just consistently fucked by the odds they try to play by 

Maybe the MLB will feel sorry for Jerry and the Sox like the NBA did for his Bulls and gift them the #1 pick, a la Derrick Rose?

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2 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Maybe the MLB will feel sorry for Jerry and the Sox like the NBA did for his Bulls and gift them the #1 pick, a la Derrick Rose?

Unfortunately, we have a stupid lottery to deal with. I just simmed it 10 times.

5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 4th, 4th, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 2nd

3 minutes ago, T R U said:

Unfortunately, we have a stupid lottery to deal with. I just simmed it 10 times.

5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 4th, 4th, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 2nd

That 2008 D. Rose NBA draft was a lottery as well.  Bulls had only a 1.7% chance at the #1 pick!  Let’s hope for some collusion and that Manfred feels sorry for Jerry and his pathetic team!  🤣

14 minutes ago, T R U said:

Unfortunately, we have a stupid lottery to deal with. I just simmed it 10 times.

5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 4th, 4th, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 2nd

That seems like a bad simulator.  Shouldn’t the Sox have the best chance at the #1 pick with the Rockies being ineligible, as well as the Nationals and Angels?  Seems like the Sox should have been simmed to win it at least once, if not more, with their odds.

4 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

That seems like a bad simulator.  Shouldn’t the Sox have the best chance at the #1 pick with the Rockies being ineligible, as well as the Nationals and Angels?  Seems like the Sox should have been simmed to win it at least once, if not more, with their odds.

It's just over 25% even with those things factored in.

5 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

It's just over 25% even with those things factored in.

That’s around what I was seeing.  Slightly higher according to this site…

https://www.tankathon.com/mlb

TRU was very unlucky in his sims.  Hopefully that doesn’t happen.

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5 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

That’s around what I was seeing.  Slightly higher according to this site…

https://www.tankathon.com/mlb

TRU was very unlucky in his sims.  Hopefully that doesn’t happen.

Just simmed another 10. Team in ( ) is who got #1.

2nd (Braves), 1st, 5th (Rays), 2nd (Twins), 3rd (Cardinals), 2nd (Rays), 2nd (Braves), 6th (Cardinals), 4th (Pirates), 1st

So that's 2/20 for 1st place, just gotta hope RNG is on our side

13 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

That’s around what I was seeing.  Slightly higher according to this site…

https://www.tankathon.com/mlb

TRU was very unlucky in his sims.  Hopefully that doesn’t happen.

Yeah 27.73.  It isn't huge.  It's about 3 times in 11 occurances.

1 hour ago, Kyyle23 said:

Because this is a Reinsdorf outfit, feels like the Sox will end up picking 7th just like they did all those years they tried to tank under Gar and AKME lol.  Just consistently fucked by the odds they try to play by 

It's funny. You have the Sox and Bulls who have bad luck with draft positioning. And then you have the Bears who are gifted high draft picks only to not know how to make them work. Funny, I tell ya. Hilarious. 🫠

4 minutes ago, Snopek said:

It's funny. You have the Sox and Bulls who have bad luck with draft positioning. And then you have the Bears who are gifted high draft picks only to not know how to make them work. Funny, I tell ya. Hilarious. 🫠

WE ARE ALL LAUGHING!  

3 hours ago, Snopek said:

It's funny. You have the Sox and Bulls who have bad luck with draft positioning. And then you have the Bears who are gifted high draft picks only to not know how to make them work. Funny, I tell ya. Hilarious. 🫠

The only hope I have for the Bulls is that Matas fell into their lap and he has star if not superstar potential. He will take a big leap this year into one of the better two way players in the league imo. How GMs figured he was only the 11th best prospect in that draft is something.