Relative Percent Index - 2012-2013


Year:
2012-13 NBA RPI Rankings
RKTEAMRPIWLPCTSOSPWRPFPAEWLEWP
1 Miami .568 66 16 .805 .489 1 8436 7791 65-17 .788
2 Oklahoma City .562 60 22 .732 .505 2 8669 7914 67-15 .818
3 San Antonio .558 58 24 .707 .508 6 8448 7923 61-21 .742
4 Denver .556 57 25 .695 .509 3 8704 8287 57-25 .692
5 Memphis .549 56 26 .683 .505 7 7659 7319 56-26 .679
6 LA Clippers .548 56 26 .683 .503 4 8289 7760 61-21 .748
7 New York .535 54 28 .659 .494 5 8196 7849 55-27 .671
8 Golden State .524 47 35 .573 .507 12 8296 8222 44-38 .537
9 Indiana .518 49 32 .605 .489 8 7674 7348 54-27 .672
  Brooklyn .518 49 33 .598 .492 10 7944 7798 47-35 .576
11 Houston .517 45 37 .549 .506 9 8688 8403 52-30 .634
  LA Lakers .517 45 37 .549 .506 11 8381 8286 45-37 .547
13 Utah .510 43 39 .524 .505 13 8038 8045 41-41 .496
14 Chicago .509 45 37 .549 .495 14 7641 7615 42-40 .514
15 Dallas .503 41 41 .500 .504 17 8293 8342 39-43 .476
  Atlanta .503 44 38 .537 .492 16 8032 7999 42-40 .517
17 Boston .497 41 40 .506 .494 15 7818 7836 40-41 .491
18 Milwaukee .487 38 44 .463 .494 20 8108 8231 36-46 .438
19 Portland .483 33 49 .402 .510 22 7995 8255 30-52 .371
20 Philadelphia .476 34 48 .415 .496 21 7640 7914 29-53 .359
  Minnesota .476 31 51 .378 .508 19 7851 8045 33-49 .401
22 Toronto .471 34 48 .415 .489 23 7971 8092 36-46 .438
23 Sacramento .467 28 54 .341 .509 25 8219 8619 26-56 .313
24 New Orleans .466 27 55 .329 .511 27 7714 8031 28-54 .340
25 Washington .459 29 53 .354 .495 18 7644 7852 32-50 .391
26 Phoenix .458 25 57 .305 .509 26 7804 8335 21-61 .252
27 Detroit .457 29 53 .354 .491 24 7778 8105 28-54 .336
28 Cleveland .444 24 58 .293 .494 28 7913 8297 26-56 .314
29 Charlotte .434 21 61 .256 .493 30 7661 8418 14-68 .174
30 Orlando .430 20 62 .244 .493 29 7718 8291 19-63 .235
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.