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Apr 12 2013

The Final Tank Rank

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The 2013 All-Tank team: Viacheslav Kravtsov, Louis Amundson, Derrick Williams, Jan Vesely, Jermaine O'Neal, Luke Walton, DeMarcus Cousins, Sebastian Telfair, Kwame Brown. Image by Stacey Goldberg. Tank photo from tylermerrick.com

Piston Powered updated the lottery projections on Wednesday, and there’s both good news and bad news for the Sixers. Their odds of landing the #11 pick dropped from 66 percent to 51 percent, but their odds of landing the #12 pick rose from six percent to almost 28 percent. (Again, these projections were updated on Wednesday.)

Tonight’s game against the Wizards could shake up the lottery scene. Washington is just two games behind Philly in the standings and its last game of the season is against a reeling Chicago team that could be resting key players before the playoffs.

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Apr 05 2013

Tank Rank Week 4

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The 2013 All-Tank team: Viacheslav Kravtsov, Louis Amundson, Derrick Williams, Jan Vesely, Jermaine O'Neal, Luke Walton, DeMarcus Cousins, Sebastian Telfair, Kwame Brown. Image by Stacey Goldberg. Tank photo from tylermerrick.com

Last week, Piston Powered’s Dan Feldman enlisted the help of ESPN Insider Kevin Pelton to project how each lottery team would finish in the standings along with their likelihood of landing each pick in the draft. (Basically, it’s a cleaner, more scientific version of the Tank Rank.) As of last Friday, it gave the Sixers a 66% chance of landing the No. 11 pick and a 3.6% shot of getting in the top 3.

It’s not all grim for the tanking Sixers fans though. Coming off a back-to-back set against the Bobcats, Philly has a particularly rough schedule … Read the rest

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Apr 04 2013

Hoop76 Chat: You probably think this franchise is about you

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Eric: Happy Holidays! Why not celebrate with a Hoop76 chat? This week we discuss tankage, the rise of Spencer Hawes, and the Holiday Bros. The following is a loosely edited gchat convo.

You’re So Vain, Ol’ Pick

Eric: Last night I was looking through some Doug Collins photos – just a typical Wednesday evening – and I came across a gem from a 1973 Sports Illustrated. So that led me to checking out Curry Kirkpatrick’s story, “Ol’ Pick And A Lot Of Slick Comin,” which was written after the controversial gold medal game against the Soviet Union, but … Read the rest

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Mar 29 2013

What happened at the season ticket holder meeting on Wednesday?

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I wasn't there, but I think it's reasonable to assume Rod Thorn was wearing a powdered wig. (Credit: TheLiberalOc.com)

The Sixers held a town hall style meeting Wednesday for season ticket holders to air their grievances and talk shop with Adam Aron, Tony DiLeo, and Rod Thorn. As you might expect, tensions ran high.

Sixers fan and season ticket holder Corrado Aponte (@mrdangdang) live tweeted the event and caught the attention of the Sixers blogosphere. Below, he offers his firsthand account of the meeting for Hoop76.

It’s only my second year with season tickets, so I refrained from brandishing my pitchfork and torch. Instead, I chose to simply watch and listen. Hey, I’m just as curious about … Read the rest

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Mar 29 2013

Tank Rank

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The 2013 All-Tank team: Viacheslav Kravtsov, Louis Amundson, Derrick Williams, Jan Vesely, Jermaine O'Neal, Luke Walton, DeMarcus Cousins, Sebastian Telfair, Kwame Brown. Image by Stacey Goldberg. Tank photo from tylermerrick.com

I have some bad news. I’m just going to get it out of the way now, and I’m going to do it quickly, like tearing off a Band-Aid. Are you ready?

(Are you sure?)

Okay, here we go:

DougCollinsisstilltryingtowingamesandtheSixershaveareallyeasyschedulethisweek.

Did that help at all? I hope it did. As Tom Sunnergren noted on Wednesday, Doug Collins still wants to win basketball games. Is it going to help in the short term? Nope. The Sixers definitely aren’t making the playoffs. Is it going to help in the long term? Nope. They’re throwing away ping pong balls.

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Mar 22 2013

The Tank Rank

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The 2013 All-Tank team: Viacheslav Kravtsov, Louis Amundson, Derrick Williams, Jan Vesely, Jermaine O'Neal, Luke Walton, DeMarcus Cousins, Sebastian Telfair, Kwame Brown. Image by Stacey Goldberg. Tank photo from tylermerrick.com

When Hoop76 debuted the Tank Rank last week, I basically just eyeballed each team’s schedule and guesstimated which ones looked harder than others on paper, making slight adjustments based on which teams seemed amenable to various “tank” tactics (like shelving core players with exaggerated or bogus injuries). This didn’t strike me as the most scientific approach.

So this week, I turned to a nifty metric called Simple Rating System (SRS), which combines a team’s scoring margin and strength of schedule to generate a rating that roughly represents how many points above or below average they are. For instance, Oklahoma … Read the rest

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