Comments on: Most Dominant Playoff Tournament: Championship

By: merl

merl — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:34:41 +0000

Congratulations on not just rerunning the simulator until it yielded the result you 'knew' was correct.

Yay for the Spurs.

For some reason I was expecting 4 bulls teams to make the top 4 after the first round.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:16:42 +0000

In retrospect, it's not too surprising that the Spurs won. Their two best players, Duncan and Parker, perfectly exploit the '93 Bulls' weaknesses. Paxson couldn't guard anyone faster than Chris Duhon, and the inside game was shaky at best. Add to that Bowen doing as well as anyone can on Jordan and the fact that Robert Horry was on the Spurs, and it doesn't seem like so much of an upset. The only thing I'm surprised about is why the '86 Celtics didn't go farther.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:55:07 +0000

Well, Bruce turned Michael into inefficient volume. GOAT. Even in a simulation, it's rather weird seeing results turn out like this.

Thanks for the simulation Neil, I actually planned to do this on the MixMakers forums a while ago but never got around to it. It was fun reading the boxscores and imagining each scenario, as crazy as some of the results were.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:35:48 +0000

Well Neil, I applaud you for thinking this up and trying it out. And for carrying it out to the conclusion, even after it became clear that WIS might have no idea what it's talking about.

By: dickey simpkins

dickey simpkins — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:03:52 +0000

The Spurs always deserved better Finals opponents.

By: Jared Ras

Jared Ras — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:58:10 +0000

I can't believe the Spurs won with playing a past-his-prime Glenn Robinson as much as they did.

By: Jason J

Jason J — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:52:24 +0000

Imaginary Bowen deserves a super-fancy imaginary fruit bouquet.

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:39:03 +0000

Not to the 2005 Spurs, each of whom receive a complimentary fruit basket* for their tournament win. *Disclaimer: Fruit basket only exists in the imaginary WhatIfSports world.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:35:43 +0000

Wow, that was a pointless endeavor. :)

By: Jason J

Jason J — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:33:33 +0000

Ran the 1996 Bulls v. the 2005 Spurs (2-3-2 Finals format)

94 - 89 Chicago home
101 - 103 San Antonio away
103 - 95 Chicago away
97 - 85 Chicago away
90 - 109 San Antonio home
108 - 88 Chicago home

Looks like the game found '93 Chicago to be better than '96 Chicago, '05 San Antonio to be better than '93 Chicago, and '96 Chicago to better than '05 San Antonio. Rock - Paper - Scissors style.