Relative Percent Index - 2018-2019


Year:
2018-19 NBA RPI Rankings
RKTEAMRPIWLPCTSOSPWRPFPAEWLEWP
1 Toronto .556 34 13 .723 .500 0 5347 5107 32-15 .681
2 Milwaukee .551 32 12 .727 .493 0 5175 4735 36-8 .812
3 Golden State .548 32 14 .696 .499 0 5450 5149 33-13 .719
4 Denver .544 30 14 .682 .499 0 4884 4678 30-14 .671
5 Portland .534 28 19 .596 .514 0 5288 5173 28-19 .590
6 San Antonio .527 27 20 .574 .511 0 5254 5139 28-19 .590
7 Utah .526 26 21 .553 .517 0 5095 4932 30-17 .631
  Houston .526 25 19 .568 .511 0 4930 4840 25-19 .575
9 Philadelphia .525 30 16 .652 .482 0 5311 5155 29-17 .621
10 LA .523 24 21 .533 .519 0 5163 5157 23-22 .505
11 Indiana .522 29 15 .659 .476 0 4781 4549 31-13 .694
12 Boston .516 27 18 .600 .488 0 5042 4767 32-13 .716
13 Sacramento .510 23 22 .511 .509 0 5140 5192 21-24 .459
14 LA Lakers .506 25 21 .543 .494 0 5147 5097 25-21 .540
15 Oklahoma City .505 26 18 .591 .477 0 4991 4790 29-15 .663
16 Minnesota .498 21 24 .467 .508 0 5019 5039 22-23 .484
17 Memphis .497 19 26 .422 .521 0 4555 4658 18-27 .409
18 Brooklyn .491 24 23 .511 .484 0 5243 5266 23-24 .482
19 New Orleans .490 21 25 .457 .501 0 5401 5325 26-20 .558
20 Dallas .489 20 24 .455 .500 0 4832 4820 22-22 .510
21 Miami .487 21 22 .488 .487 0 4552 4553 21-22 .499
22 Detroit .486 20 24 .455 .497 0 4696 4805 18-26 .406
23 Charlotte .482 21 23 .477 .484 0 4931 4903 23-21 .523
24 Orlando .479 19 26 .422 .497 0 4672 4845 16-29 .354
25 Washington .474 19 26 .422 .491 0 5096 5241 17-28 .386
26 Atlanta .452 14 30 .318 .496 0 4836 5185 11-33 .241
27 Phoenix .451 11 35 .239 .522 0 4875 5269 10-36 .217
28 New York .438 10 34 .227 .508 0 4713 5079 10-34 .225
29 Chicago .437 10 35 .222 .508 0 4543 5015 7-38 .164
30 Cleveland .427 9 37 .196 .504 0 4729 5228 7-39 .160
Glossary
  • RK: Rank
  • RPI: Relative Percent Index
  • W: Wins
  • L: Losses
  • PCT: Win Percentage
  • PA: Points Against
  • EWL: Expected Win-Loss
  • EWP: Expected Winning Percentage
  • Relative Percent Index: The basic formula is 25% team winning percentage, 50% opponents' average winning percentage, and 25% opponents' opponents' average winning percentage.
  • Expected Winning Percentage and Win-Loss: Derived the Pythagorean 16.5 Method, the basketball adaptation of Bill James' Pythagorean theorem of baseball: Runs scored ^16.5 / (Runs scored ^16.5 + runs allowed ^16.5). This formula was designed to relate a team's points scored and points allowed to its won-lost record.