Let’s play FiveThirtyEight Family Feud. Twenty seconds on the clock. Name an animal that begins with the letter ‘F’. Fox! Name a famous Super Bowl upset. J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets. Name a famous NBA Finals upset. I mean… umm, uh. Uhhhhhhrrrrrrrmm. That isn’t an easy question. Didn’t Bill Russell’s Celtics once lose in the finals? […]
Let’s play FiveThirtyEight Family Feud. Twenty seconds on the clock. Name an animal that begins with the letter ‘F’. Fox! Name a famous Super Bowl upset. J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets. Name a famous NBA Finals upset. I mean… umm, uh. Uhhhhhhrrrrrrrmm. That isn’t an easy question. Didn’t Bill Russell’s Celtics once lose in the finals? […]
The stakes in the NBA are incredibly high. Superstar players so dominate the league that decisions on trades, draft picks and free-agent signings could gut a franchise for years or make it a perennial contender. But unlike in sports like baseball and hockey, where luck plays a larger role, in the NBA, the best team […]
The stakes in the NBA are incredibly high. Superstar players so dominate the league that decisions on trades, draft picks and free-agent signings could gut a franchise for years or make it a perennial contender. But unlike in sports like baseball and hockey, where luck plays a larger role, in the NBA, the best team […]
How do you rate an NBA team across decades of play? One method is Elo, a simple measure of strength based on game-by-game results. We calculated Elo ratings for every NBA (and ABA) franchise after every game in history — over 60,000 ratings in total.
