Historical NBA Playoff Series Length
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Austin Link
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Historical NBA Playoff Series Length
I'm looking for quick stats on how often playoff series go X number of games, ideally divided by home and away team winning (Say, home team in 4 A%, home team in 5 B%, etc.). I'm hoping to back up the conclusions I made about picking series length http://austinsportsstats.blogspot.com/. Does anybody know if/where these numbers can be found? Thanks for the help.
Re: Historical NBA Playoff Series Length
Found this scrap in an old thread:
basketballvalue
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject: 7 Game Series question Reply with quote
As I followed the Boston/Atlanta series, I thought it was interesting that the home team won every game. Anyone know how often that happens/how rare that is?
I'd be curious to know both in general (e.g. 1%), as well as the percentage of 7 game series where the home team wins every game(maybe 10% of that subset?).
Thanks,
Aaron
Eli W
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
I just put this data together so there may be inaccuracies (the data is from ShrpSports), but it looks like from the '84 to '07 playoffs (I haven't compiled earlier playoffs, which included best-of-three series), 24 of the 360 playoff series (7%) had zero games where the road team won. And 10 of the 48 series (21%) that went to seven games had zero games where the road team won.
It is not the clean answer you wanted, but it is on the topic.
basketballvalue
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
Posts: 91
PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject: 7 Game Series question Reply with quote
As I followed the Boston/Atlanta series, I thought it was interesting that the home team won every game. Anyone know how often that happens/how rare that is?
I'd be curious to know both in general (e.g. 1%), as well as the percentage of 7 game series where the home team wins every game(maybe 10% of that subset?).
Thanks,
Aaron
Eli W
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
Posts: 357
PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
I just put this data together so there may be inaccuracies (the data is from ShrpSports), but it looks like from the '84 to '07 playoffs (I haven't compiled earlier playoffs, which included best-of-three series), 24 of the 360 playoff series (7%) had zero games where the road team won. And 10 of the 48 series (21%) that went to seven games had zero games where the road team won.
It is not the clean answer you wanted, but it is on the topic.