POLL How many games will the Celtics win?

How many wins?


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pjheff

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With the high expectations surrounding the playoffs, I thought it might be time to bump this thread. The C’s finished the year at 48-24, a .667 winning percentage which would equate to 55 wins in a normal year. It’s easy to forget what a squander last June felt like, with Ainge making a succession of great moves to build assets only to watch Kylie quit on the team and leave for nothing, to be followed by Horford. It is a credit to Ainge that he was able to spin Rozier and cap space into an All-Star in Walker, to Stevens that he managed to rebuild the defense around Daniel Theis, and to the young core for seizing the opportunity to make this team their own.
 

bigq

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I said 48-49 and I will take that as a correct prediction
This is spot on. The question in July was quite clear. How many games will the Celtics win? There was no mention of estimating win totals based on winning %. Also I guessed 47-48 and I don’t want to be mocked. ;)
 

Imbricus

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I guessed 54, partly on a hunch the talent was going to gel better and they just had a crappy season the year before.
 

benhogan

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That's me but you have already established this as a fact here. You really see this exercise as a skill?
don't take it personally, didn't even realize you were in the bottom group. I was playing along with the board.

but feel free to offer your mea culpa after wringing your hands about the demise of the C's last Summer
 
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scottyno

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Maybe it's homerism, maybe it's us knowing the team better than the general public, or thinking that last years team should have been better than they were, but it's actually pretty impressive that almost 2/3rds of us picked them to be at least as good as last year's team despite seemingly having much less overall "talent" than last years team and we ended up being right.

Al choosing to leave was the best thing that could have happened to this team. If he stays Kyrie still leaves, no Kemba, and they may have even lost Theis.
 

DeJesus Built My Hotrod

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don't take it personally, didn't even realize you were in the bottom group. I was playing along with the board.

but feel free to offer your mea culpa after wringing your hands about the demise of the C's last Summer
Please cite what you are referring to wrt to the Cs demise. Hint, I never said that - I am very deliberate in not making definitive statements about the future because I know I can't see forward in time.

That said, it seems like you think "predicting" is a skill based on your body of work in this forum where you are probably the one poster who likes finding old takes that turn out wrong so you can "do some research". I am certainly not clever but I wouldn't dare say that about the others who made the same selection. I think everyone else in that grouping probably understands basketball better than an expert like you.

I am guessing that you also reject the efficient market hypothesis too based on this approach but that is another thread.
 

benhogan

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Please cite what you are referring to wrt to the Cs demise. Hint, I never said that - I am very deliberate in not making definitive statements about the future because I know I can't see forward in time.

That said, it seems like you think "predicting" is a skill based on your body of work in this forum where you are probably the one poster who likes finding old takes that turn out wrong so you can "do some research". I am certainly not clever but I wouldn't dare say that about the others who made the same selection. I think everyone else in that grouping probably understands basketball better than an expert like you.

I am guessing that you also reject the efficient market hypothesis too based on this approach but that is another thread.
take a pill