Our NBA ranking system uses a customized power rating scale to measure a team’s overall progress and efficiency throughout the course of the regular season. Different factors include:

• Strength of schedule and caliber of wins (placing extra emphasis on road wins and consecutive wins over a particular team)
• Efficiency on both sides of the ball – offense and defense separately accounted for
• How a star player allows his teammates’ and his own usage rate to impact team success
• Groups teams into six tiers of five – reorganized and updated twice per month as necessary

 

Rank	Team	Record	Rating	High	Low
1	Utah	27-9	133.6	1	2
2	Brooklyn	24-13	131.3	2	6
3	L.A. Lakers	24-13	130.3	1	3
4	Phoenix	24-11	127.8	4	9
5	L.A. Clippers	24-14	126.1	3	5
6	Philadelphia	24-12	125.9	3	6
7	Milwaukee	22-14	122.5	4	8
8	Denver	21-15	121.1	7	11
9	Portland	21-14	120.9	9	14
10	Golden State	19-18	120.8	6	10
11	Miami	18-18	120.4	9	16
12	Boston	19-17	119.0	8	15
13	Dallas	18-16	115.2	9	14
14	Toronto	17-19	113.4	11	16
15	San Antonio	18-14	113.0	12	16
16	Memphis	16-16	112.0	14	18
17	Charlotte	17-18	110.6	16	22
18	Atlanta	16-20	110.6	16	21
19	Chicago	16-18	110.3	19	24
20	Indiana	16-19	109.7	15	20
21	Washington	14-20	109.7	21	27
22	New York	19-18	108.9	18	24
23	Sacramento	14-22	108.3	17	24
24	New Orleans	15-21	107.2	19	25
25	Oklahoma City	15-21	105.1	23	28
26	Detroit	10-26	104.1	25	29
27	Houston	11-23	103.5	18	27
28	Orlando	13-23	101.0	23	28
29	Cleveland	14-22	97.5	27	30
30	Minnesota	7-29	92.6	28	30