Expected Winning Percentage - 2016-2017


Year:
2016-17 NBA RPI Rankings
RKTEAMRPIWLPCTSOSPWRPFPAEWLEWP
1 Golden State .580 67 15 .817 .500 0 9503 8549 70-12 .851
2 San Antonio .562 61 21 .744 .501 0 8637 8047 63-19 .763
3 Houston .545 55 27 .671 .503 0 9458 8985 57-25 .700
4 LA .534 51 31 .622 .504 0 8911 8559 54-28 .660
  Toronto .526 51 31 .622 .494 0 8762 8417 54-28 .660
6 Utah .532 51 31 .622 .502 0 8258 7935 54-28 .659
7 Cleveland .529 51 31 .622 .498 0 9048 8787 51-31 .618
8 Boston .533 53 29 .646 .495 0 8859 8641 49-33 .601
9 Washington .520 49 33 .598 .494 0 8953 8805 47-35 .568
10 Miami .499 41 41 .500 .498 0 8460 8373 44-38 .543
11 Oklahoma City .522 47 35 .573 .505 0 8741 8679 43-39 .529
12 Memphis .512 43 39 .524 .508 0 8239 8199 43-39 .520
13 Denver .498 40 42 .488 .502 0 9161 9119 43-39 .519
14 Chicago .497 41 41 .500 .496 0 8435 8400 42-40 .517
15 Charlotte .483 36 46 .439 .498 0 8601 8587 42-40 .507
16 Milwaukee .500 42 40 .512 .497 0 8497 8512 40-42 .493
17 Indiana .497 42 40 .512 .493 0 8618 8636 40-42 .491
18 Portland .503 41 41 .500 .504 0 8851 8894 39-43 .480
19 Atlanta .501 43 39 .524 .493 0 8459 8529 38-44 .466
20 Minnesota .475 31 51 .378 .508 0 8657 8748 37-45 .457
21 Detroit .486 37 45 .451 .497 0 8309 8401 37-45 .455
22 New Orleans .483 34 48 .415 .505 0 8556 8728 34-48 .419
23 Dallas .479 33 49 .402 .504 0 8029 8269 31-51 .381
24 New York .467 31 51 .378 .496 0 8556 8857 30-52 .361
25 Sacramento .478 32 50 .390 .507 0 8430 8748 29-53 .352
26 Phoenix .451 24 58 .293 .504 0 8831 9293 25-57 .301
27 Philadelphia .457 28 54 .341 .495 0 8400 8867 24-58 .291
28 Brooklyn .434 20 62 .244 .497 0 8673 9225 22-60 .265
29 Orlando .461 29 53 .354 .496 0 8288 8827 21-61 .261
30 LA Lakers .457 26 56 .317 .504 0 8575 9139 21-61 .259
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.