Relative Percent Index - 2019-2020


Year:
2019-20 NBA RPI Rankings
RKTEAMRPIWLPCTSOSPWRPFPAEWLEWP
1 LA Lakers .578 49 14 .778 .512 0 7203 6736 47-16 .751
2 Milwaukee .573 53 12 .815 .493 0 7712 6978 55-10 .839
3 LA .553 44 20 .688 .509 0 7436 7019 46-18 .722
4 Toronto .549 46 18 .719 .493 0 7231 6818 46-18 .725
5 Boston .541 43 21 .672 .498 0 7232 6837 46-18 .716
  Denver .541 43 22 .662 .501 0 7176 6984 40-25 .610
7 Utah .536 41 23 .641 .501 0 7106 6903 40-24 .617
8 Oklahoma City .535 40 24 .625 .505 0 7089 6932 38-26 .591
9 Houston .533 40 24 .625 .502 0 7560 7320 40-24 .630
10 Philadelphia .530 39 26 .600 .506 0 7123 6979 38-27 .583
11 Miami .526 41 24 .631 .491 0 7290 7080 40-25 .618
12 Dallas .524 40 27 .597 .500 0 7796 7391 47-20 .707
13 Indiana .521 39 26 .600 .495 0 7107 6981 37-28 .573
14 New Orleans .500 28 36 .438 .520 0 7436 7489 30-34 .471
15 Memphis .496 32 33 .492 .497 0 7321 7391 30-35 .461
16 Orlando .494 30 35 .462 .505 0 6914 6977 30-35 .463
17 Portland .490 29 37 .439 .507 0 7500 7607 29-37 .442
  Sacramento .490 28 36 .438 .507 0 6975 7098 27-37 .428
19 San Antonio .489 27 36 .429 .509 0 7130 7240 28-35 .437
20 Brooklyn .486 30 34 .469 .492 0 7089 7131 30-34 .476
21 Phoenix .478 26 39 .400 .504 0 7316 7405 29-36 .450
22 Charlotte .457 23 42 .354 .491 0 6687 7126 17-48 .259
23 Minnesota .454 19 45 .297 .507 0 7248 7523 22-42 .351
24 Washington .453 24 40 .375 .478 0 7400 7657 23-41 .363
25 Atlanta .452 20 47 .299 .503 0 7488 8022 16-51 .243
26 New York .451 21 45 .318 .496 0 6983 7409 18-48 .273
27 Cleveland .448 19 46 .292 .500 0 6947 7461 15-50 .235
28 Chicago .446 22 43 .338 .482 0 6945 7145 25-40 .385
29 Detroit .440 20 46 .303 .485 0 7078 7313 24-42 .368
30 Golden State .437 15 50 .231 .506 0 6912 7478 14-51 .214
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.