{"id":4384,"date":"2016-10-25T08:29:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2016-10-25T08:29:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:29:04","slug":"time-nba-franchise-rankings-2016-17-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/time-nba-franchise-rankings-2016-17-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Time NBA Franchise Rankings (2016-17 Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several years of ranking all active NBA\u00a0franchises <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grayflannelsuit.net\/blog\/time-nba-franchise-rankings-2015-16-edition\" target=\"_blank\">on my other site<\/a>, I\u2019ve decided to move it here. In addition to the list having a new home,\u00a0I\u2019ve upped my game introduced some new technology to the process \u2014 namely, Tableau data visualizations.\u00a0Other than making things look snazzy, however, the methodology behind how I\u2019m ranking all NBA franchises remains pretty much intact. So for those who don\u2019t know the rules, here they are again:<\/p>\n<h3>The Criteria<\/h3>\n<p>The categories and point values are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30 points for a\u00a0league championship, and 15 points for a Finals loss.<\/li>\n<li>2 points for a playoff berth.<\/li>\n<li>5 points for each playoff round win.<\/li>\n<li>4 points for a division title (starting in 1970-71).<\/li>\n<li>1 point for a winning season, -1 point for a losing season.<\/li>\n<li>3 points for a regular-season winning percentage better than .730 (60 wins with the current schedule), -3 points for a regular-season winning percentage worse than .270 (20 wins with the current schedule).<\/li>\n<li>Consecutive winning regular seasons are worth 2 points starting with the second, 3 points for the third, 4 points for the fourth, and so on. The counter is reset after any non-winning season. So if a team has three winning seasons in a row, they get a total of 5 points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I may tweak the formula in future years, I think this accomplishes my two most important objectives \u2014 to reward consistently good play in the regular season, and to not give older franchises too much of an advantage just by virtue of being around for so many years. I\u2019ve always felt that using NBA titles alone to measure a franchise\u2019s greatness (or badness) is taking too narrow a view.\u00a0Just as the NBA handles its own records, these rankings to not reflect statistics\u00a0for teams while in the ABA or NBL.<\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the graph will take you to my Tableau page were you can look at <a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/profile\/chris.holmes#!\/vizhome\/NHLFranchiseRankings\/AverageScores\" target=\"_blank\">other NBA charts<\/a> and play with the parameters. Each team&#8217;s previous ranking is in parentheses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/profile\/chris.holmes#!\/vizhome\/NBAFranchiseRankings\/AverageScores\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4389 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nba-franchise-rankings-2016.jpg\" alt=\"All-Time NBA Franchise Rankings (2016-17 Edition)\" width=\"1535\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nba-franchise-rankings-2016.jpg 1535w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nba-franchise-rankings-2016-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nba-franchise-rankings-2016-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nba-franchise-rankings-2016-1024x429.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1535px) 100vw, 1535px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Top 10<\/h2>\n<p>#1. Los Angeles Lakers (#1) \u2014 30.10 avg.<br \/>\n#2. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nba\/teams\/celtics\/press-room-nba-celtics.html\">Boston Celtics<\/a> (#2) \u2014 24.86 avg.<br \/>\n#3. San Antonio Spurs (#3) \u2014 22.13 avg.<br \/>\n#4. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nba\/teams\/heat\/press-room-nba-heat.html\">Miami Heat<\/a> (#4) \u2014 15.36 avg.<br \/>\n#5. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nba\/teams\/bulls\/press-room-nba-bulls.html\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> (#5) \u2014 13.64 avg.<br \/>\n#6. Utah Jazz (#6) \u2014 10.62 avg.<br \/>\n#7. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nba\/teams\/76ers\/press-room-nba-76ers.html\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> (#7) \u2014 10.55 avg.<br \/>\n#8. Oklahoma City Thunder (#9) \u2014 9.06 avg.<br \/>\n#9. New York Knicks (#10) \u2014 8.90 avg.<br \/>\n#10. Portland Trail Blazers (#9) \u2014 8.74 avg.<\/p>\n<p>Not much movement here at all, other than the Knicks and Blazers swapping spots. The Spurs continue to ever so slowly creep up on the Celtics and Lakers while they slump.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Mediocre 10<\/h2>\n<p>#11. Houston Rockets (#11) \u2014 8.63 avg.<br \/>\n#12. Detroit Pistons (#12) \u2014 8.51 avg.<br \/>\n#13. Dallas Mavericks (#13) \u2014 8.22 avg.<br \/>\n#14. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nba\/teams\/bucks\/press-room-nba-bucks.html\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> (#14) \u2014 7.52 avg.<br \/>\n#15. Golden State Warriors (#16) \u2014 7.23 avg.<br \/>\n#16. Phoenix Suns (#15) \u2014 7.13 avg.<br \/>\n#17. Cleveland Cavaliers (#22)\u00a0 \u2014 6.07 avg.<br \/>\n#18. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nba\/teams\/hawks\/press-room-nba-hawks.html\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> (#17) \u2014 6.06 avg.<br \/>\n#19. Orlando Magic (#18) \u2014 5.70 avg.<br \/>\n#20. Indiana Pacers (#19) \u2014 4.95\u00a0avg.<\/p>\n<p>To nobody&#8217;s surprise, last year&#8217;s NBA Finals teams &#8212; the Cavaliers and Warriors &#8212; both moved up this year. Cleveland captured their first league title and in the process catapulted out of the bottom third of my rankings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Bottom 10<\/h2>\n<p>#21. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nba\/teams\/bullets\/press-room-nba-bullets.html\">Washington Wizards<\/a> (#21) \u2014 4.73 avg.<br \/>\n#22. Denver Nuggets (#20) \u2014 4.50 avg.<br \/>\n#23. Sacramento Kings (#23) \u2014 3.60 avg.<br \/>\n#24. Brooklyn Nets (#24) \u2014 3.50 avg.<br \/>\n#25. Toronto Raptors (#27) \u2014 1.90 avg.<br \/>\n#26. Memphis Grizzlies (#28) \u2014 1.86 avg.<br \/>\n#27. New Orleans Pelicans (#25)\u2014 1.71 avg.<br \/>\n#28.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nba\/teams\/hornets\/press-room-nba-hornets.html\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> (#26) \u2014 1.65 avg.<br \/>\n#29. Minnesota Timberwolves (#30) \u2014 0.41 avg.<br \/>\n#30. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nba\/teams\/clippers\/press-room-nba-clippers.html\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (#29) \u2014 0.37 avg.<\/p>\n<p>Taking Cleveland&#8217;s place in the bottom tier this year are the Denver Nuggets, who turned in their third consecutive season without a playoff appearance. Congratulations to the Timberwolves, who clawed out of dead last despite another dreadful season &#8212; although to be honest that may be in part due to my use of better technology to keep track of statistics.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Team of the Decade (So Far)<\/h2>\n<p>As we head into the 2nd half of the 2010s, there is a tight race for Team of the Decade between the Spurs and Heat. Whether or not a post-LeBron James Miami can hold onto that spot remains to be seen, although of course the Warriors have plenty of time to close the gap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/profile\/chris.holmes#!\/vizhome\/NBAFranchiseRankings\/PointsbyDecade\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4391 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nba-franchise-rankings-decade.jpg\" alt=\"NBA Team of the Decade (2010s)\" width=\"998\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nba-franchise-rankings-decade.jpg 998w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nba-franchise-rankings-decade-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nba-franchise-rankings-decade-768x606.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The updated all-time ranking of every active NBA franchise through the beginning of the 2016-17 National Basketball Association season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[70,480,94,260,40,421],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-lists","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-rankings","wpcat-172-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}