Rank | Team | Adj. Win % | Weekly Rank Change |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Boston | .808 | +2 |
2 | Minnesota | .798 | +3 |
3 | Denver | .764 | -2 |
4 | Philadelphia | .736 | -- |
5 | Dallas | .646 | -3 |
6 | Houston | .645 | +11 |
7 | Indiana | .614 | +5 |
8 | Milwaukee | .601 | -1 |
9 | Oklahoma City | .592 | -1 |
10 | Miami | .589 | +8 |
11 | Atlanta | .575 | -2 |
12 | Brooklyn | .553 | +3 |
13 | Golden State | .552 | -7 |
14 | Sacramento | .550 | +12 |
15 | Toronto | .548 | -2 |
16 | New York | .518 | -2 |
17 | New Orleans | .509 | -6 |
18 | LA Lakers | .501 | +1 |
19 | Orlando | .492 | -8 |
20 | Cleveland | .471 | -4 |
21 | Chicago | .380 | +1 |
22 | Phoenix | .375 | +1 |
23 | San Antonio | .346 | -3 |
24 | Utah | .336 | +3 |
25 | Charlotte | .323 | -1 |
26 | LA Clippers | .299 | -5 |
27 | Washington | .270 | +2 |
28 | Portland | .251 | -3 |
29 | Detroit | .205 | -1 |
30 | Memphis | .174 | -- |
I’m using the Colley Matrix iteration process (https://www.colleyrankings.com/method.html)
To summarize, you take the win percentage of every team and correct it against the win percentage of their opponents. Then you have a new win percentage. And I repeat that process until the correction factor is below .001. Essentially this is what I would expect the win percentages to be if the teams played an average team every game.
Imagine two 5-5 teams. One played the Blazers ten times. One played the Celtics ten times. Are those equal teams? Probably not. This accounts for the difference in opponent quality.