For example, ESPNs 16 experts made an aggregate 192 playoff picks on their Web site, and a whopping 73% of the teams picked made the playoffs in 2006.
This year's playoffs picked up exactly where last year's dramatic seven-game World Series ended: on the edge of a cliff.
On opening weekend last year, this column borrowed some metrics from football's growing community of statistical analysts to argue that the Chiefs and the Ravens, consensus playoffs picks, were due for a drop-off.
The Canucks have until the end of the playoffs to pick up Messier's option.
(If Milwaukee makes the playoffs, that pick will come from the Bucks).
Alas, he and his teammate are sidetracked as the playoff train picks up steam with only four teams still aboard and few fans bored.
Boston, the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, will pick second after acquiring Toronto's first-round pick in an off-season trade, followed by Florida, Columbus and the Islanders.
It was transformed during the playoffs, and picked up where it left off Thursday night, offering swarming, swirling coverage that stifled the Saints.
It would mean that playoff teams would pick according to when they were eliminated from the postseason.
Heading into Tuesday's NBA draft lottery, where ping-pong balls determine where the non-playoff teams will pick in the upcoming draft, Cleveland had a 1.7% chance of landing the number one pick, which, of course, happened yet again.
