Relative Percent Index - 2025-2026


Year:
2025-26 NBA RPI Rankings
RKTEAMRPIWLPCTSOSPWRPFPAEWLEWP
1 Oklahoma City .575 64 18 .780 .507 0 9760 8846 68-14 .835
2 San Antonio .566 62 21 .747 .506 0 9826 9145 64-19 .766
3 Detroit .554 60 22 .732 .495 0 9657 8988 63-19 .766
4 Boston .545 56 26 .683 .499 0 9418 8787 62-20 .758
5 Denver .540 54 28 .659 .500 0 10010 9587 55-27 .671
6 New York .538 54 29 .651 .501 0 9549 9030 59-24 .715
7 LA Lakers .535 53 29 .646 .498 0 9540 9395 46-36 .563
8 Cleveland .531 52 30 .634 .497 0 9800 9464 52-30 .640
9 Houston .530 52 30 .634 .495 0 9449 9021 56-26 .682
10 Minnesota .521 49 33 .598 .496 0 9676 9401 51-31 .617
11 Phoenix .518 45 37 .549 .508 0 9232 9112 45-37 .554
12 Atlanta .516 46 36 .561 .501 0 9714 9516 48-34 .584
13 Toronto .515 46 36 .561 .500 0 9400 9168 49-33 .602
14 Orlando .514 45 37 .549 .503 0 9491 9439 43-39 .523
15 Philadelphia .511 45 37 .549 .498 0 9502 9517 40-42 .493
16 Miami .507 43 39 .524 .501 0 9911 9720 48-34 .580
17 Charlotte .506 44 38 .537 .496 0 9513 9117 55-27 .669
18 Portland .503 42 40 .512 .499 0 9469 9493 40-42 .490
19 LA .501 42 40 .512 .497 0 9329 9236 44-38 .541
20 Golden State .492 37 45 .451 .505 0 9398 9444 39-43 .480
21 Milwaukee .470 32 50 .390 .497 0 9072 9581 24-58 .289
22 Chicago .467 31 51 .378 .497 0 9537 9964 27-55 .327
23 New Orleans .456 26 56 .317 .502 0 9473 9842 28-54 .347
24 Dallas .454 26 56 .317 .500 0 9358 9810 26-56 .315
25 Memphis .451 25 57 .305 .500 0 9403 9896 25-57 .301
26 Sacramento .443 22 60 .268 .501 0 9102 9922 16-66 .194
  Utah .443 22 60 .268 .501 0 9641 10333 20-62 .242
28 Brooklyn .436 20 62 .244 .500 0 8686 9505 15-67 .184
29 Indiana .434 19 63 .232 .502 0 9219 9874 20-62 .244
30 Washington .426 17 65 .207 .499 0 9258 10240 13-69 .159
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.