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The Sixers' extreme woes continue to attract national attention
Flying Kite Staff
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014
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Stats hub FiveThirtyEight is the latest national publication to take notice of the 76ers' clinic in the art of losing.
The Philadelphia 76ers are in a bit of a tailspin right now.
Monday night’s loss
, against a San Antonio Spurs team that was sitting both Tim Duncan and Tony Parker, was Philadelphia’s 17th straight to start the season, a
franchise record
and one shy of the
all-time NBA record
set by the New Jersey Nets in 2009. It’s been
230 days
since the Sixers won a basketball game.
Back in mid-November
, our friends at the
Harvard Sports Analysis Collective
anticipated the Sixers’ woes and computed the odds of the team’s season-opening losing streak reaching various lengths. The chances of a 17-game streak back then were just 20 percent; Philadelphia still had to lose a few theoretically winnable games (of course, it obliged). Now we need to update the probabilities and ask just how long this Sixers skid might last.
The New York Times
also entered the fray last week:
"At 0-15, 76ers Are Perfecting the Art of Tanking"
Original source:
FiveThirtyEight
Read the complete story
here
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