Relative Percent Index - 2018-2019


Year:
2018-19 NBA RPI Rankings
RKTEAMRPIWLPCTSOSPWRPFPAEWLEWP
1 Milwaukee .553 55 19 .743 .490 0 8697 8001 59-15 .798
2 Golden State .551 50 23 .685 .506 0 8561 8151 51-22 .692
3 Toronto .548 51 23 .689 .500 0 8447 8053 51-23 .687
4 Denver .545 49 23 .681 .500 0 8041 7708 48-24 .668
5 Houston .538 47 27 .635 .506 0 8372 8120 46-28 .623
  Portland .538 45 27 .625 .509 0 8215 7949 46-26 .633
7 Philadelphia .535 47 26 .644 .498 0 8420 8179 45-28 .618
8 Utah .528 43 30 .589 .507 0 8081 7753 49-24 .665
9 San Antonio .527 43 31 .581 .509 0 8270 8150 41-33 .560
10 LA .526 44 30 .595 .503 0 8490 8404 40-34 .542
11 Oklahoma City .523 43 30 .589 .502 0 8356 8107 45-28 .622
12 Indiana .520 45 29 .608 .491 0 7983 7692 48-26 .649
13 Boston .518 43 31 .581 .496 0 8329 7994 49-25 .663
14 Sacramento .500 36 37 .493 .502 0 8319 8366 35-38 .477
15 Detroit .496 37 36 .507 .493 0 7865 7887 36-37 .488
16 Miami .495 36 37 .493 .496 0 7723 7730 36-37 .496
17 Brooklyn .492 38 36 .514 .485 0 8260 8279 36-38 .491
18 Orlando .490 35 38 .479 .493 0 7748 7758 36-37 .495
19 Charlotte .488 34 39 .466 .496 0 8079 8148 34-39 .465
  Minnesota .488 33 40 .452 .500 0 8208 8276 34-39 .466
21 LA Lakers .487 32 41 .438 .503 0 8153 8312 31-42 .421
22 New Orleans .483 31 44 .413 .507 0 8652 8708 36-39 .473
23 Dallas .481 29 44 .397 .509 0 7916 8024 32-41 .444
24 Memphis .480 29 44 .397 .507 0 7493 7680 29-44 .400
25 Washington .472 30 44 .405 .494 0 8455 8652 30-44 .406
26 Atlanta .454 26 48 .351 .488 0 8335 8777 22-52 .299
27 Chicago .444 21 53 .284 .498 0 7792 8377 17-57 .232
28 Phoenix .441 17 57 .230 .511 0 7913 8586 15-59 .206
29 Cleveland .437 19 55 .257 .497 0 7725 8398 15-59 .201
30 New York .426 14 60 .189 .504 0 7784 8463 15-59 .201
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.