nba.draft {UsingR}

NBA draft lottery odds for 2002

Description

The NBA draft in 2002 has a lottery

Usage

data(nba.draft)

Format

A data frame with 13 observations on the following 2 variables.

Team

Team name

Record

The team won-loss record

Balls

The number of balls (of 1000) that this team has in the lottery selection

Details

The NBA draft has a lottery to determing the top 13 placings. The odds in the lottery are determined by the won-loss record of the team, with poorer records having better odds of winning.

Source

Data is taken from https://www.nba.com/news/draft_ties_020424.html.

Examples

data(nba.draft)
top.pick = sample(row.names(nba.draft),1,prob = nba.draft$Balls)