Franchise Power Rankings

[Brophdog88]

We are now entering our 12th season of UOSLR, so I figure what better time to rank the Franchises on there performance so far. To do this, I came up with a formula, to take bias out of the equation for the most part, as obviously I would be influenced by what they have done lately.
I gave teams
1 point for a regular season win
2 points for a playoff win
5 points for a playoff appearance
10 points for a finals appearance
25 points for a title

That means a first round playoff appearance is worth 5-11 points (5 for the appearance + up to three wins at two points each) 2nd round is 13-19 points, Conference Championship 21-27, a Finals appearance is worth 39-45, and a title is worth 72 points, due to the wins. The most possible points in the regular season would be 82, and the most possible points in the playoffs 72. Without further hesitation, I present the overall Rankings.

Rank	Team	Overall Points	Rank for Regular Season	Playoff Points Rank
1	*	847	2	1
2	*	794	1	2
3	**	764	5	3
4	**	742	6	4
5	*	679	8	5
6		661	4	7
7		649	3	10
8	*	643	13	6
9	*	631	9	8
10		600	14	9
11		595	7	13
12		568	12	12
13	*	549	19	14
14		548	10	15
15		545	18	11
16		542	11	17
17		512	16	18
18		501	15	21
19		494	21	19
20		492	24	16
21		483	22	20
22		471	20	25
23		469	23	24
24		465	17	26
25		455	27	22
26		451	25	23
27		428	26	29
28		416	28	28
29		405	29	27

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Elite:
Vancouver, Toronto

Outstanding:
Charlotte, Chicago

Great:
Minnesota, Seattle, Indiana, Golden State, San Antonio

Good:
New Jersey, Washington

Average:
Boston, Miami, Houston, Philadelphia, Denver

Below Average:
Portland, Cleveland, Utah, Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix

Poor
Milwaukee, New York, Detroit, Sacramento, Orlando,

Terrible:
Los Angeles Lakers, Atlanta, Dallas

Most wins per playoff appearance:
Golden State with 11 wins per playoff appearance
Runner Up: Vancouver-10.8889
3rd place: Miami-10.6667

Least Wins per Playoff Appearance:
New York-1 Win per playoff appearance
Runner Up: Cleveland-2.5 wins
3rd place: Tie Los Angeles Lakers+Phoenix Suns-2.6667

Interesting notes

• I think these balance out quite Nicely, it is clear however, that Vancouver is the best....who would have expected that after the C-wizz era.
  
• Toronto benefited obviously from the first overall pick in the franchise draft, however, his score gains a lot of points because he spent the first ten seasons in the playoffs, which is impressive no matter what, That streak finally ended this year, making it so that every team has missed the playoffs at least once.
  
• If Shaun wants to make a case about the number one pick meaning a huge amount in a title run, he can brag that the top 4 have all had a number one pick, however, so have teams 29, 26, 25, 18, 17, 13.
  
• Miami has only three playoff appearances in the history of the franchise, yet has two Finals and one Title.
  
• The average point total in this comes out to 565, with only 12 teams placing above that mark, thanks to the Grizzlies and Raptors dominance.
  
• The Raptors 10 playoff appearances match the Sonics for the most, however, Toronto won on average 3.2 more games than did the Supersonics.
  
• Seattle has the most playoff wins of any team without a title with 42
  
• The stat I find most amazing is that New York only has five playoff wins in its history, and it has been to the playoffs 5 times. Another interesting stat is that there is only one team to have been to the finals, but not to have won a title.
  
• to put that last stat in perspective, New York and Golden State have both been in the playoffs 5 times....and Golden State has 50 more wins in the five appearances!!!
  
• Houston has been to the finals once, however, they are the only team to participate in a finals series, but not manage to win a title at some point. Every other Franchise that has reached the Finals, has managed to win the title at some point or another.
  
• Vancouver has exactly one half of the possible points to this point 847 out of 1694 available
  
• Asterisks next to the team name stand for number of titles. If you are wondering why there are only 10 even though we have gone 11 years, it is because the Nets franchise won the first tile, as the 8 seed, but were then known as the Buffalo Braves. When the GM that ran the Braves was fired (and I was hired) the move was made to eventually return the team to New Jersey, but losing the asterisk.
  
• for Kru:Teams who have had one GM throughout the league rank 2/5/7/11/16/18/21/24/25/26/28...not so great
  

[Brophdog88]

Damn tables are tedious on proboards....

[Tigertecz]

Yah tables are fucking horrible in proboards lol. Great article though, great concept. I tried to do a team ranking thing during the regular season, which was the equivalent of player rankings but for teams. Came up with a formula that took into account all the team statistics pages, but all it did was rank the teams... didn't seem like enough to flesh out into an article imo... but maybe I'll do it next season to see what it looks like.

[martinez]

great article, I agree with our ranking. We were great for the first few years then we got old and had no youth or picks to fall back on.

This year and forward Sacramento will be a perennial contender once again.

[Kruwaukee]

This is awesome looks great. I think this is something that should be kept yearly.

I think something that should be taken into consideration

1. Teams who had had multiple owners/gms.
2. Most recent 5 seasons

Also to note I wonder where the Hornets would be if they didn't break up Zo and LJ

[Brophdog88]

The one thing I want is Division Championship and conference championship points included, however, I can't get those from 1996 on, so I had to leave them out. It isn't actually all that tough to get the stats and total up the points, but the damn formatting took forever, however, totaling the last five seasons for each team would take a while. I can keep this updated season to season no problem. I don't think multiple GM's matter much, cause it really can't be assigned a point value, I know that your team ranks really low, but with a good enough stretch you will climb.

[Kruwaukee]

Almost like a carfax, cars with 1 owner are more valuable. I'm curious as to the teams who have had 1 owner here where they rank.

[Brophdog88]

read the last bullet point Kru

[martinez]

#25 baby, solid.

[csdude07]

Probably the best article ever written for this league

[DB]

pretty sweet article nice job. We suck as a franchise, damn. I know I never had playoff success here, which is sad. Fucking pussies.

[Kruwaukee]

Why is Canada dominating UOSLR?

[csdude07]

Haven't had a lot of offers for my vets...expect the gap to widen

[Brophdog88]

nah, Chicago gained 39 points on you last year alone...although he is a ways back, if I had to predict a top 5 for next offseason, I would go, Vancouver Chicago Toronto, Minnesota, Seattle

[csdude07]

Oct 12, 2009 11:27:33 GMT -5 Brophdog88 said:

nah, Chicago gained 39 points on you last year alone...although he is a ways back, if I had to predict a top 5 for next offseason, I would go, Vancouver Chicago Toronto, Minnesota, Seattle

nah, I wasn't talking about a Van-Chi gap.

Do you see anyone in the top 5 closing in on me Besides the Bulls this year?