Calling Out The Optimists

by Jeff Clark on Apr 20, 2007 4:52 AM EDT in Boston Celtics News & Links

In the preseason, I organized a site where every team's blogger could preview the season. I thought it might be fun to look back and see how well each team did. I enlisted the very talented Jason Gurney from Ballhype to put the numbers into a sortable table. Here are the results.

Winner of the Overoptimistic Drunk On Kool Aid Award is our good friend Justin from CelticsStuffLive. He predicted 48 wins for the Celtics and had the highest negative differential (-24) in the league. (I didn't fare much better at -18) Jason himself was the most pessimistic, underestimating the fortunes of the Jazz and Warriors.Â Henry Abbott of TrueHoop (and now an ESPN bigshot) cheated and didn't pick a win total.

For more fun at Ballhype (from the makers of lowpost.net), check out the new game picking the winners of each round of the playoffs. 2007 NBA Playoffs Pick'em Contest

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Just a heads up guys – I ran the ESPN Lottery Sim 3x today (and only 3x today) and all 3 had us landing at #2 and taking Durant. In light of this Nostradamus moment, I see us with 45 wins next season.

by TheUndertow on Apr 20, 2007 8:29 AM EDT reply actions

Celts and Grizz predictors were off the most. Not too surprisingly. What does surprise me is that some fans actually underguessed their team.

by GreenBalls on Apr 20, 2007 9:07 AM EDT reply actions

Oh and what a glorious distinction it is! :D

by Jughead on Apr 20, 2007 9:33 AM EDT reply actions

everytime i run it we end with 3 out of 10 being top two. that’s what it should be.

by celty86 on Apr 20, 2007 9:37 AM EDT reply actions

:D :D

Well done Jughead! You can’t tell me those Celticsstuff Live guys don’t know their stuff.

(of course I was a -19, but who would notice that…)

by The Duke33 on Apr 20, 2007 12:07 PM EDT reply actions

Here’s my pre-prediction for 2007 season….. Mark this down

Celtics will win “50” games next season……………..

YES, that is correct “50”

That’s how confident I am about next season with this team….before we have the draft and or make a trade………….

Bring it on ;)

by Ancient Red on Apr 20, 2007 12:22 PM EDT reply actions

Hey, I’m on board. But this team has to do something positive this summer. Get the young players some help besides Pierce, half-Wally & the corpse of Ratliff.

by LuckyNumber07 on Apr 20, 2007 7:59 PM EDT reply actions