Strength of Schedule - 2020-2021


Year:
2020-21 NBA RPI Rankings
RKTEAMRPIWLPCTSOSPWRPFPAEWLEWP
1 Dallas .526 27 21 .563 .513 0 5366 5273 27-21 .572
  LA .546 33 18 .647 .513 0 5828 5503 37-14 .720
3 Golden State .499 23 27 .460 .512 0 5592 5700 21-29 .422
4 Utah .576 38 11 .776 .510 0 5741 5249 40-9 .814
5 Denver .540 31 18 .633 .509 0 5650 5390 34-15 .685
6 Memphis .509 24 23 .511 .508 0 5259 5219 25-22 .531
  Cleveland .468 17 32 .347 .508 0 5032 5450 10-39 .211
8 Sacramento .490 22 28 .440 .506 0 5740 5934 18-32 .366
  Oklahoma City .482 20 29 .408 .506 0 5182 5544 12-37 .247
10 Indiana .493 22 26 .458 .504 0 5421 5430 24-24 .493
  Washington .467 17 31 .354 .504 0 5447 5715 15-33 .312
  Orlando .463 17 33 .340 .504 0 5216 5566 13-37 .255
  Minnesota .438 12 38 .240 .504 0 5455 5848 12-38 .241
14 New Orleans .489 22 27 .449 .502 0 5641 5630 25-24 .508
15 Atlanta .505 26 24 .520 .500 0 5661 5564 29-21 .571
  Chicago .479 20 28 .417 .500 0 5404 5465 22-26 .454
17 Charlotte .502 25 24 .510 .499 0 5425 5481 22-27 .458
18 Detroit .445 14 35 .286 .498 0 5232 5433 17-32 .349
19 Milwaukee .536 32 17 .653 .497 0 5842 5530 35-14 .712
  Miami .503 26 24 .520 .497 0 5321 5355 24-26 .474
  LA Lakers .528 31 19 .620 .497 0 5501 5293 33-17 .654
  Philadelphia .542 34 16 .680 .497 0 5710 5465 34-16 .673
23 Boston .497 25 25 .500 .496 0 5620 5531 28-22 .565
24 Phoenix .547 34 14 .708 .493 0 5482 5146 35-13 .740
25 Toronto .465 19 30 .388 .490 0 5503 5478 25-24 .519
26 Portland .520 30 19 .612 .489 0 5645 5625 25-24 .515
  Brooklyn .537 34 16 .680 .489 0 5936 5714 33-17 .652
28 New York .491 25 25 .500 .488 0 5242 5196 27-23 .536
29 San Antonio .491 24 23 .511 .484 0 5202 5251 22-25 .461
30 Houston .427 13 36 .265 .481 0 5260 5578 13-36 .275
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.