Relative Percent Index - 2022-2023


Year:
2022-23 NBA RPI Rankings
RKTEAMRPIWLPCTSOSPWRPFPAEWLEWP
1 Milwaukee .552 55 22 .714 .498 0 9008 8709 49-28 .636
2 Boston .547 54 24 .692 .498 0 9232 8724 56-22 .718
3 Philadelphia .541 51 26 .662 .500 0 8870 8511 51-26 .664
4 Denver .538 51 26 .662 .496 0 8942 8656 49-28 .631
5 Cleveland .532 48 30 .615 .504 0 8760 8346 54-24 .690
6 Memphis .529 49 28 .636 .494 0 8993 8660 50-27 .651
7 Sacramento .525 47 30 .610 .496 0 9332 9085 47-30 .609
8 New York .523 45 33 .577 .504 0 9017 8782 47-31 .607
9 Brooklyn .517 42 35 .545 .507 0 8753 8682 41-36 .534
10 Phoenix .514 42 35 .545 .503 0 8736 8582 44-33 .573
11 Miami .509 40 37 .519 .506 0 8370 8451 35-42 .460
12 Golden State .504 41 37 .526 .497 0 9231 9170 41-37 .527
  LA .504 41 37 .526 .496 0 8820 8794 40-38 .512
14 LA Lakers .502 39 38 .506 .501 0 8972 8970 39-38 .501
15 Minnesota .500 39 39 .500 .500 0 9018 9049 38-40 .486
  Toronto .500 38 39 .494 .502 0 8690 8602 42-35 .542
17 Chicago .497 37 40 .481 .503 0 8733 8642 42-35 .543
  Atlanta .497 38 39 .494 .499 0 9077 9080 38-39 .499
  New Orleans .497 39 38 .506 .494 0 8794 8639 44-33 .573
20 Oklahoma City .495 38 40 .487 .497 0 9161 9082 42-36 .536
21 Dallas .494 37 40 .481 .498 0 8762 8727 40-37 .517
22 Utah .490 36 41 .468 .497 0 9024 9075 37-40 .477
23 Washington .487 34 43 .442 .503 0 8703 8764 36-41 .471
  Indiana .487 34 44 .436 .504 0 9045 9285 31-47 .394
25 Orlando .483 33 44 .429 .501 0 8607 8785 32-45 .416
26 Portland .478 32 45 .416 .499 0 8730 8982 30-47 .385
27 Charlotte .460 26 52 .333 .502 0 8675 9155 23-55 .291
28 Houston .436 19 59 .244 .500 0 8622 9270 18-60 .232
29 San Antonio .434 19 58 .247 .496 0 8635 9448 14-63 .185
30 Detroit .430 16 61 .208 .504 0 8527 9132 19-58 .244
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.