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Sandy Weil is the Director of Analytics at Sportsmetricians Consulting, the researcher behind groundbreaking hot hand research and a repeat contributor to HoopIdea. Let's face it: the middle of the NBA season can be a dull time. But it could be...

Chart by Sandy Weil Current lottery odds give a huge benefit to being the worst team in the NBA. It is universally acknowledged that there is something odd about teams being rewarded for playing badly, as we have discussed when HoopIdea first addre...