The Rockets just became the seventh team in history to win 18 or more consecutive games—five of the previous six won the NBA championship. I don't care what anyone say about our ongoing streak but its one hell of an accomplishment in a tough league and I those who tries to down play are just haters.
Soon to be 2nd, and I say that in all seriousness. It might not last through the year, but San Antonio has 4 tough games and we have 3 easy ones next, meaning if things play out properly we should be ahead of them before our 5-games-in-7-nights scrum.
The significance is I'm more pumped and rejuvenated about the Rockets since the champion years...I'm likely not the only one... They look like a team with such a complete drive and focass.
Statistically, a running streak of this binomial trial (win/lose, 82 trials together) follows a weird distribution. In short, the longest run of wins is approximately log(82-82p)/log(1/p) where p is the winning probability. If we throw in a winning streak of 18, it basically means that the winning probability of rockets is about 88.12%. It's insane!
God I hope Lakers lost to Kings today... Kings currently up by 11 with 6 mins left in the third... fingers and toes crossed!!!
The Binomial Distribution is not weird I'm not sure what you did, but I believe the probability to win 18 consecutive games, is simply x^18, where x is the winning chance per game. In order to have a 50% probability to accomplish such feat, x is 96.22% When the critics keep bringing it up law of the average, they are dead wrong. It's clearly the law of exponential.
