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Pete's ASPN put out their projected win totals and all of that stuff, just like they do before every season.

And they have the Lakers winning 43.3 games, the Milwaukee Bucks winning 44.5 games, Pete the

we believe Lakers are back.

Wait so they've got us at 43 wins in a 72 game season. So 43 and 29?

All of these win totals are really low. Like all of them, like the, you know, because you have the best team, you know, their best team winning 44 and a half games.

So one thing I think that they're really taking into account is load management and injuries and stuff like that.

But, but yeah.

Sure, but the best team in the league having 28 losses is, that would be unprecedented I think so especially in a year where there's 10 fewer games just yeah that's that's odd

Yeah, yeah so so it says games played are projected basis on time missed over the previous three seasons. I then make a sub subjective so at least he's saying subjective guess at minutes distribution for each team multiplying those minutes by players offensive and defensive

ratings yield team ratings that translate into expected wins.

I use those projections to simulate the season 10,000 times and record the average number of wins as well as how often each team make the

play, make the, made the playoffs. They have the bucks at 99%

making the playoffs, they have the Lakers at a 95% chance of making the playoffs.

And I'm telling you, the hate continues, Pete.

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