What Are The Odds: A Statistical Analysis of Tanking in The NBA
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8 min readMar 11, 2019
What Is Tanking?
Tanking is the art of creating a purposefully bad team with the intention of losing games to gain high draft picks. Ultimately, almost all people agree you need a truly great player on your team to win a championship in today’s NBA. Tanking aims to gain this player with top draft pick, and to ultimately win a championship with…
