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Originally Posted by getbak
There are 14 balls in the hopper and they draw 4. If you pick 4 balls out of a total pool of 14 and don't care about the order, there are 1001 different combinations.
They assign 1000 of the combinations to the non-playoff teams according to the predetermined percentages. The 1001st combination is unassigned and if it comes up, it is ignored, and they redraw.
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I feel like such a dork, but this is probably the most interesting thing said in the thread so far.