2003 Playoff Bracket and Regular Season Standings
Okay, the regular season is over and it's time for another round of "which Cafite will win the NBA this time?" First, let's take a look at the regular season standings. I've added the Streak and Last 10 stats this time, so you can tell how close you were to making or not making the playoffs.
Eastern Conference
Almost everyone who was predicted to make it, made it. The only exception is
@reelworld with the Washington Wizards. In his defence, the East turned out to be quite strong this year, or at least very even. As expected,
@BenitoSTARR made it with the Knicks, trailing the scary Bulls.
@Dan's back in the playoffs with Philadelphia, 5 seasons in a row where his team weren't good enough. The 3-seed is quite surprising, but it's worth noting that the5 games separate the 3-seed and the 7-seed.
@oneniltothearsenal is back in the playoffs as well, as expected. His team is actually pretty decent, but are they strong enough to take down the top 2? Cleveland is also back in the playoffs, not having made it (or been particularly close) since
@altodevil's first season at the team. Now the team belongs to
@V.O. and his sidekick
@Skizzo.
Western Conference
We've got a lot more missing out in the West, and a couple of them are quite surprising.
@Samid missing out was expected, as the Rockets are very much a work in progress.
@Stobzilla and
@P-Nut also ended up in their expected 9th spot, though note that their record puts them
one game behind a playoff spot. It's even worse for
@sebsheep, with his Trailblazers only missing out on tiebreakers (
). We've also got the Nuggets with
@Salt Bailly and
@Dr. Dwayne as low as 12th, though they were only two games from making it.
If you look at the L10 (last ten games) stat, you can identify what happened. Both the Golden State Warriors and the Spurs went 7-3 in their last 10, while all our close calls had losing records at the same time. That also means that the Spurs were definitely out of playoff contention before
@hobbers came back and dragged them back in it. Other than that, both
@altodevil's Sacramento and the Seattle trio of
@weetee,
@Solius and
@The Cat made it, as expected.
That means that the bracket looks like this: