All Star voting - Dallas-Mavs.com Forums

Fidel · 12-20-2002, 11:19 PM

Maybe some of the mods could make this a sticky?
So that everyone who visits dallas-mavs.com remembers to vote.
Dirk really has a chance to be a starter this year. I´m going to post similar things on all the german bball sites I know. Simply click here to go to the ballot.

ÜberDirk · 12-21-2002, 02:35 PM

keep this post high [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

nowitzki_prophecy · 12-21-2002, 03:59 PM

steve has a good chance too,he's third behind francis and kobe,he needs to be second to be a starter.

Fidel · 12-22-2002, 03:05 PM

Why no sticky?
Don´t care or what?

FilthyFinMavs · 12-22-2002, 05:58 PM

I'll help you bump this up. BTW dont forget about Finley if I am correct he is right behind Kobe in votes lol. He won't make starter but it wouldn't hurt to have lots of votes being it could reflect on being a back up at the game. With people around the league talking about how undderrated Finley is I am starting to believe he could really possibly make it being he has no other threat at the shooting guard position in the west other then Kobe. Dirk is a lock and Nash could be also.

Fidel · 12-22-2002, 10:08 PM

FFM, I didn´t mean to vote for Dirk only. Of course everyone should vote for all the Mavs IMO. I was just trying to point out that it is really important to vote this year, because Dirk has a realistic chance to be a starter. Every vote might be important. As for Fin, he definitly deserves some more votes. I´m pretty sure all 3 will make it anyways, if not through voting then by coaches decission (at least if the Mavs can keep the pace and still have the best record come all star weekend). But wouldn´t it be cool if we send a starter too? So everyone vote.

FilthyFinMavs · 12-23-2002, 01:55 PM

Yea I'm voting for Dirk, Nash and writing in Nick all the time since If ound out that cookies someone explained. I think it's wrong how Duncan leads in votes when Dirk is playing better but I still think he has a chance.

Fidel · 12-23-2002, 08:52 PM

edit: double post.

Fidel · 12-23-2002, 08:53 PM

*Bump*
And I still wish someone could tell me why this can´t be a sticky.

Fidel · 12-23-2002, 09:07 PM

Thanks.

MavKikiNYC · 12-23-2002, 10:22 PM

Who are people voting for anyway?

dude1394 · 12-24-2002, 04:19 PM

I've had some confusion on another board and hoped we might get this cleared up.

1. Do you HAVE to vote for both conferences to have your vote count. the other board said yes.
2. The instructions said to vote for 2 guards, 2 forwards, 1 center. Does that mean your vote won't be counted if you vote for dirk, steve,finley, raef and then van excel as a write-in??

Inquiring minds want to know.

COOLJAZZ · 12-26-2002, 01:03 PM

My ballots have been:
Dirk, Finley, Nash, NVE (write-in) and Yao Ming. Wanta see somebody other than Shaq!

East: J.Oneal, Kidd, A.Iverson and Ben Wallace.

Voting about 20times daily.

Ike · 12-26-2002, 11:55 PM

I think Finley, Nash, Dirk, will be starters for this year.

With Finley's offense, Nash's offense and making a good pass to the right man, and Dirk's offense and rebounding.They will be a deadly combination.

#41 · 12-27-2002, 05:37 AM

There won't be any Mvs player starting, not even Dirk.

If you only look at the Effeciency Ranking: Dirk is 6th in the league, but only 3rd out of Western Power Forwards!

#41 · 12-27-2002, 05:38 AM

His bonus is the Mavs' record of 24-4 of course...

LRB · 12-27-2002, 05:17 PM

<< There won't be any Mvs player starting, not even Dirk.

If you only look at the Effeciency Ranking: Dirk is 6th in the league, but only 3rd out of Western Power Forwards! >>

Of cource many of the people voting don't look at the numbers. The starting player is just a popularity contest. Good numbers get you exposure on highlight clips and such. And some fans do look closer at the numbers. But most need to see the players. That's where national TV exposure can help. Unfortunately although the Mavs haven't lost many times, they haven't done spectacturaly on national TV. A few more games on national TV like last night's game would have helped him tremendously. But I got to believe if Dirk and the Mavs keep progressing, its just a question of time before he gets the start.

Nash13 · 12-28-2002, 12:55 AM

<< The starting player is just a popularity contest. >>

I think the NBA should have rights to overturn some starters b/c of they're popularity. Last yr, Francis started and scored the least amount of points in last season's all-star, and didn't play most of the 1st half of last season. This yr Vince Carter is getting the most votes even though the only thing he was credited for doing this season was dancing at a Nelly Concert. And Shaq should get no votes b/c he missed a lot of games, his team is terrible, and he slams his teammates. He should still be in the all-star game is b/c there are no other popular centers.

MavKikiNYC · 12-28-2002, 07:50 PM

West: Nash, Finley, Nowitzki, Duncan, Ming

Is this lineup a little chauvinistic/provincial or what? Three Mavs, and Texas-only players. To be fair, I've had to throw a couple of votes Kobe's way too.

East: Kidd, McGrady, Hill, J.O'Neal, Wallace

I'd love to see these teams match up. While the West is generally regarded as having better talent, I think this small East team would match up pretty well defensively with the Texas All-Stars.

Fidel · 12-28-2002, 11:22 PM

Kikki, why do you vote Duncan? Right now he´s ahead of Dirk. Or do you think Dirk can´t catch him anyways?

I usually vote Dirk, Fin, Nash plus LaFrentz or Bradley, sometimes that vote goes to Yao. My second forward vote is a write in for any available Mav most of the times, sometimes I vote Potapenko or Kirilenko. Also the Drobber, Rasho Nesterovic, Jaric, Tskitishvili, Sabonis, Desmond Mason, Pia and Hilario and Savovic (shocking, I know).

In the east it usually goes like: Baron Davis, Ray Allen, MJ, vanHorn, and Big Z. I also voted for N'diaye, Shawn Kemp, Wolkowyski, Mike Miller, Toni Kukoc, MacCulloch. That´s all I can remember.

MavKikiNYC · 12-29-2002, 09:25 AM

Awww, Fidel.....I can tell you're a calculating one.

I voted that lineup because it looked like the best 5.

But since you mention it, I'm not sure that Dirk would surpass Duncan bassed on their seasons (and given Duncan's reputation) to date.

I would love to see Yao Ming be voted a starter over Shaq. My guess is that The Big Back-Up would then refuse to play, which would open another spot for a Maverick.

MFFL · 12-30-2002, 09:09 AM

LINK

Mavericks Notes
Voters sought for Big Three
By Dwain Price
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

DALLAS - With an NBA-best 25-4 record, the Mavericks are issuing an all-out plea to their fans: Vote for the Big Three to start in the All-Star Game.

The Big Three, of course, are forward Dirk Nowitzki and guards Michael Finley and Steve Nash. Nash and Nowitzki played in their first All-Star Game last season, picked as reserves by Western Conference coaches, and West coaches voted Finley onto the All-Star squad in 2000 and 2001.

Jason Kidd is the only player who has represented the Mavs as an All-Star starter.

This season's game is Feb. 9 in Atlanta, and fans can vote through Jan. 12, by obtaining ballots from the Mavs or by going online to www.nba.com.

"We've got about 4 million people in the Metroplex," said Matt Fitzgerald, the team's senior vice president of marketing and communications. "If you can get 5 percent of those people to vote every day for the next 10 days, we could pick up 2 million votes just like that."

The Mavericks have organized contests involving 17 elementary schools, 10 high schools, four church youth groups and four Mavericks youth basketball teams concerning who can punch the most All-Star ballots. The top group wins a day at their school that includes appearances by the Mavericks cheerleaders, Mavs Man and the Funslingers.

Also, any fan who fills out 100 ballots at a home game receives a T-shirt and is entered in a drawing for a Sony PlayStation 2 and an autographed basketball.

"We've gotten a tremendous response," Fitzgerald said. "Our biggest problem is getting more ballots to punch out."

The NBA supplies each team with 125,000 ballots. The Mavericks have filled out 90,000 ballots, and have requested and received an additional 40,000 ballots. They needed only 30,000 ballots last season.

After the first votes were announced two weeks ago, Nowitzki was third among forwards (with 450,467 votes), Nash was third among guards (296,114) and Finley was sixth among guards (166,942).

After the first votes were tallied last season, Nowitzki had 100,190 votes, Finley had 65,768 and Nash had 45,369.

Dooby · 12-30-2002, 11:14 AM

If Shane Battier gets in the all-star game, it will be my fault.

Dooby · 12-30-2002, 02:36 PM

I can't keep this up.

MFFL · 01-01-2003, 10:40 AM

I'm burning out too. When is the second round of vote totals coming in?

grbh · 01-01-2003, 10:31 PM

I am getting carpal tunnel from writing in EE, and TAW.

ReggieThetaChi · 01-03-2003, 09:23 PM

I have been voting all during the "National Championship" game. (The Canes are pissing me off)

I have counted 54 votes. God bless Cable Internet.

mavs413 · 01-06-2003, 04:42 PM

How do you vote more than once in a day? I tried but cant. Like you said that you voted 54 times during the fiesta bowl?

MFFL · 01-06-2003, 04:52 PM

<< How do you vote more than once in a day? I tried but cant. Like you said that you voted 54 times during the fiesta bowl? >>

You have to delete your cookies between every vote. That way the NBA website assumes that you are a new voter.

Rhylan · 01-06-2003, 05:13 PM

When you guys are deleting your cookies, are you nuking them all, or just the NBA.com cookie?

Fidel · 01-06-2003, 06:17 PM

NBA cookie is enough Rhylan.

Rhylan · 01-06-2003, 11:00 PM

Oh, I know, I was just curious what most users do.. as it impacts the site [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

JoeGalvan · 01-06-2003, 11:01 PM

wussup guys. . .

just some more info on the ballots thing.

An official from the mavs came in to my work today (champs sports) and asked if he could use our ballots.

we gave him about 10 thousand. (5 cases). he said he was going to bring them back to us so we could turn them in. (stores with most ballots win something) but we were like, screw the ballots bring some tickets.

I honestly cannot remember the guys name, i wasnt there when it happened, but he left his card.

nice business card royal/black/silver with Mavs logo at the top. the email on the card was mavsman@dallasmavs.com

anyway, today was a slow day at work, so i got a chance to fill out 50 ballots.

you should do the same.

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after re-reading that article, it might have been that matt fitzgerald guy that came in today. for some reason i was thinking his name started with an M.

MFFL · 01-06-2003, 11:34 PM

<< Oh, I know, I was just curious what most users do.. as it impacts the site >>

???

Rhylan · 01-06-2003, 11:41 PM

MFFL, deleting a cookie that the site gives you, then returning to the site would make you appear as a brand new visitor, rather than a repeat visitor. I'm just curious because I'm sure someone will come out with some numbers on how much of the online voting came from China, and it would be interesting to know how many people are faithful in voting over and over once a day, which users could do even if they kept their cookie (and would be identifiable). But deleting the cookie in order to vote more than once a day would not only create more votes, but skew the measurement of people voting multiple times. Interesting stuff [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

MFFL · 01-07-2003, 10:02 AM

<< MFFL, deleting a cookie that the site gives you, then returning to the site would make you appear as a brand new visitor, rather than a repeat visitor. >>

Even if you log in again?

Rhylan · 01-07-2003, 12:11 PM

You're right, if you logged in, and the cookie that is sent is tied to a username/id of some kind, then that would obviously make you look like the same person, visiting twice.

That would make sense on a site like Amazon or Ebay, for example, where you can/have to log on with your actual user ID before you do anything of substance. The NBA All-Star balloting doesn't do that sort of thing, so my guess is that it won't let you vote and give you the little validation code unless the NBA.com cookie either doesn't exist or is not from the current day, since deleting the NBA.com cookies allows you to vote as much as you want.

mavs413 · 01-07-2003, 11:16 PM

When you delete your cookies and go back to the site, is the validation number supposed to change? Cause i deleted all the cookies but the same validation numbers was there so im not sure if it worked or not.

dude1394 · 01-08-2003, 10:40 PM

I can't figure out how to delete cookies either. Where ARE they?

Also I noticed that cubes has started a contest to win a free SUITE to a mavs game, pass the word!

veruca salt · 01-09-2003, 07:18 PM

Sorry I don't know if this has been mentioned, but Dirk is only 40 000 votes
behind KG.
"Big" Race for West Fowards

So yeah, do what you can kids.
On a side note, i just noticed that Shaq is being kept out
of the top spot. Not too surprisingly really, seeing as the whole of China
is behind Yao...but how pissed is Shaq going to be?
haha.
Oh well, atleast Yao might actually play in the game.