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Investigating Probability with the NBA Draft Lottery
Author(s) -
Quinn Robert J.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1997.tb00325.x
Subject(s) - lottery , basketball , hull , tournament , order (exchange) , mathematical economics , mathematics , advertising , econometrics , computer science , statistics , operations research , economics , engineering , geography , business , combinatorics , archaeology , marine engineering , finance
Summary This article investigates an interesting application of probabilityin the world of sports. Specifically, it cosiders the role of permutations in the lottery used by National Basketball Association in the United States to determine the order inwhich non‐playoff teams select players from the college ranks.