Re: Official NBA Season Thread
tuq,
It wasn't supposed to be hurtful, it was just a joke.
We shouldn't put too much stock into SOS yet, we don't know what each of these teams are actually going to be yet so these SOS numbers are going to be skewed imo. Just like during the second week of the NFL when PokerFink was trying to tell me that the Cowboys had a much tougher schedule ahead than Green Bay and I told him there was no way to know that--it turns out that Green Bay has it tougher and Dallas' schedule isn't that bad.
Hollinger puts LA ahead of teams like Hou, Dal, Det, Pho, Orl, and Uta which is just nuts--every team I mentioned has a better record and a much higher point diff but LA has this inflated SOS...but they are a 4-3 team and they will be a just over .500 team every month unless something drastic happens.
Point is, beating Chi drops Pho is some math related polls but it could all even out when Chi has a nice Dec or tears it up in Jan. Hollinger and Sagarin don't mean a whole lot early on.
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