Relative Percent Index - 2020-2021


Year:
2020-21 NBA RPI Rankings
RKTEAMRPIWLPCTSOSPWRPFPAEWLEWP
1 Utah .570 42 14 .750 .511 0 6553 6024 45-11 .800
2 Philadelphia .552 39 17 .696 .503 0 6369 6070 39-17 .689
3 Phoenix .549 40 15 .727 .490 0 6323 5928 41-14 .744
  LA .549 39 19 .672 .508 0 6660 6274 42-16 .728
5 Brooklyn .540 38 18 .679 .493 0 6664 6398 37-19 .662
6 Denver .536 36 20 .643 .500 0 6456 6150 39-17 .690
7 Milwaukee .531 35 20 .636 .496 0 6557 6196 39-16 .718
8 LA Lakers .525 34 22 .607 .497 0 6151 5930 36-20 .647
9 Dallas .523 30 25 .545 .515 0 6121 6041 30-25 .554
10 Portland .514 32 23 .582 .492 0 6302 6312 27-28 .493
11 Boston .510 30 26 .536 .502 0 6304 6187 32-24 .577
12 Atlanta .509 30 26 .536 .500 0 6339 6234 32-24 .568
  Memphis .509 28 26 .519 .506 0 6108 6028 30-24 .554
14 Golden State .504 28 28 .500 .506 0 6328 6357 27-29 .481
15 Miami .502 28 28 .500 .503 0 5953 6029 25-31 .448
16 New York .501 30 27 .526 .492 0 6032 5947 32-25 .558
17 Charlotte .499 27 28 .491 .502 0 6064 6141 25-30 .448
18 Indiana .495 26 29 .473 .503 0 6260 6280 27-28 .487
19 New Orleans .486 25 31 .446 .500 0 6414 6438 27-29 .485
20 San Antonio .485 26 28 .481 .486 0 5975 6041 25-29 .455
21 Washington .479 22 33 .400 .506 0 6260 6522 19-36 .337
22 Sacramento .477 22 34 .393 .505 0 6394 6653 19-37 .342
23 Chicago .470 22 33 .400 .494 0 6175 6258 24-31 .445
24 Cleveland .469 20 35 .364 .504 0 5714 6113 14-41 .247
25 Toronto .467 23 34 .404 .488 0 6384 6350 30-27 .522
26 Oklahoma City .466 20 36 .357 .502 0 5896 6398 12-44 .206
27 Orlando .456 18 38 .321 .500 0 5839 6271 13-43 .235
28 Detroit .453 17 39 .304 .503 0 6031 6229 21-35 .370
29 Minnesota .444 15 42 .263 .504 0 6286 6725 14-43 .247
30 Houston .430 14 42 .250 .490 0 6053 6441 15-41 .264
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.