2026 NBA draft thread

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So you're saying the tankathon graph is incorrect. Hmmm. https://www.tankathon.com/pick_odds

I presume their odds are accurate. But they are rounding their odds to the nearest .1 (one-tenth) which means when you add more than one of them together, it can give you a slightly skewed total because of the rounding. 

For example, if you have 4.6 in one column (rounded up from 4.55), and you have 4.6 in another column (rounded up from 4.55), when you add the rounded numbers 4.6 and 4.6, then you get 9.2. But the actual total of those numbers (4.55 + 4.55) is 9.1. So when you think it's a total of 9.2, you are off by .1%. If you had the full numbers, rather than rounded ones in the chart, then when you added them together you would see they come to the same total.

I'm not going to do the math to figure the odds to the nearest thousandth on all the lottery possibilities, but it might be something like this before rounding, on the odds for 5-6-7 -- with the tankathon chart number in the brackets.
Pick 1 - 47.87 [47.9] -- chart number total would be 47.9
Pick 2 - 27.84 [27.8], 20.03 [20.0] -- chart number total would be 47.8 (27.8 + 20.0)
Pick 3 - 14.83 [14.8], 26.03 [26.0], 7.02 [7.0] -- chart number total would be 47.8 (14.8 +26.0 + 7.0)

As you can see, the tankathon numbers are rounded correctly. But even though the actual total odds are identical (47.87 in every case), the result of adding the rounded numbers doesn't always come out the same.