Franchise Power Rankings Update

[Brophdog88]

Its been four seasons since the original Franchise Power Rankings, so I figured it would be as good a time as any. of course the Bulls are just coming off winning another title, same as last time I wrote this article, and their second in the four years, which as you expect drives them to the head of the pack. There were some large gains by teams, the Rockets, who went to the finals three times but won no titles, and the Bucks and Magic, who both capitalized on retirements for the Bulls, not to mention garnering some talent of their ownand won a title catapulting them up the rankings. I used a similar formula as to last time, only adding in retroactively the division titles and conference titles...(I am missing one year, not sure which one though, but this does mean there are 8 points missing from one East and West team and 4 points from another.)
I gave teams
1 point for a regular season win
2 points for a playoff win
4 points for a Division Title
5 points for a playoff appearance
8 Points for a Conference Title (including the 4 for a Division Title)
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 90, 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	Previous
1	****	1175	748 (1)	427 (1)	4
2	*	1069	721 (T-4)	348 (2)	1
3	*	961	701 (3)	260 (4)	2
4	**	945	668 (8)	277 (3)	3
5		938	680 (10)	258 (5)	15
6		903	720 (6)	183 (8)	6
7	*	868	662 (16)	206 (T-6)	5
8	*	829	623 (20)	206 (T-6)	8
9	*	822	665 (11)	157 (13)	22
10		817	694 (2)	123 (15)	11
11		799	669 (7)	130 (14)	7
12	*	793	628 (15)	165 (11)	9
13	*	785	618 (14)	167 (9)	26
14		781	661 (T-4)	120 (16)	14
15	*	780	614 (12)	166 (10)	13
16		765	604 (17)	161 (12)	10
17		744	647 (9)	97 (23)	24
18		734	617 (16)	117 (17)	17
19		708	601 (19)	107 (20)	16
20		707	604 (21)	103 (22)	21
21		691	577 (18)	114 (18)	12
22		673	564 (25)	109 (19)	25
23		651	580 (23)	71 (27)	18
24		644	540 (28)	104 (21)	20
25		636	579 (22)	57 (28)	23
26		628	549 (26)	79 (25)	19
27		626	541 (28)	83 (24)	27
28		619	571 (24)	48 (29)	28
29		603	525 (29)	78 (26)	29

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Chicago

Elite:
Vancouver

Outstanding:
Toronto, Charlotte, Houston

Great:
Seattle, Minnesota,

Above Average:
Golden State, Milwaukee, Washington
Average:
Indiana, San Antonio, Orlando, Philidelphia, New Jersey

Below Average:
New York, Portland

Poor
Denver, Phoenix, Boston, Sacramento, Cleveland

Terrible:
Detroit, Los Angeles Clippers, Atlanta, Utah, Los Angeles Lakers, Mavericks


Chicago really messes with the standard deviations, making a lot more average and worse teams

Take them out and you get:


Houston down a notch
Minnesota down a notch
Indiana up a notch
San Antonio up a notch


Most wins per playoff appearance:
Vancouver with 10.36 wins per playoff appearance
Runner Up: Chicago-10.09
3rd place: Charlotte-8.44

Least Wins per Playoff Appearance:
Cleveland with 2.57 wins per playoff appearance
Runner Up: New York-2.89
3rd place: Utah-3.14

Most points past 4 years:
1st Chicago with 433
2nd Houston with 393
3rd Milwaukee with 351

Most Positions Gained over the Last 4 years:
T-1st. Bucks+Magic-13 positions
3rd. Rockets-10 positions

Most Positions lost last four seasons
1.Celtics: 9 positions lost
2.Jazz: 7 positions lost
3.Nets: 6 positions lost

Interesting notes

• To understand just how dominant the Bulls were these past 4 years…they got more points in the the past 4 years…then three franchises did in the first 11
  
• Of the top 10, exactly 5 are out of the East….widely considered the dominant conference
  
• However of the top 4, three are from the East
  
• And of the Bottom Four…3 are from the West
  
• The average point total in this comes out to 782 with 13 teams placing above that mark, but many lie right around that average.
  
• Houston has the most playoff wins of any team without a title with 84, the next closest is 25 wins back (Seattle)
  
• I am sure that Houston would trade half those playoff wins for a title, rather than the four runner ups
  
• to put that last stat in perspective, nobody else has reached the finals more than once without a Title (Lakers)
  
• The fewest number of playoff appearances with a title? New Jersey, which won the first league title while under the name Buffalo Braves, when moved back to New Jersey under new ownership it was decided to make the Braves a separate entity, so the * would not carry over for the title.
  
• Chicago has won 5 division titles….and 5 conference titles, never having ended up second best in the conference, they have the highest number while doing this, however, 3 other teams can claim the same 100% ratio: Houston (3-3), Milwaukee (2-2), Indiana (1-1)
  
• I am missing one years conference results it would appear, not sure which one though, but, as it appears now, 6 teams have not won a division or conference title…Denver, Cleveland, Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit, Utah, Mavericks….each of those teams are ranked nineteenth or worse
  
• 20th-29th place in the rankings: 5 division titles 0 conference titles…1st-10th place in the rankings: 35 Division Titles, 24 Conference Titles…says a lot…. oh and 11th-19th 17 Division Titles 3 Conference Titles
  
• Which team has won the most Division Titles? Seattle with 7, but only two of those are Conference Titles
  
• For Kru: Teams with one GM throughout the history of the league sit 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 17, 19, 22
  

[Before I'm Gone]

Which los angeles were you talking about?

[Tigertecz]

+5

Nice twist on the original article, and some interesting tidbits at the bottom.

Quote:
Chicago has won 5 division titles….and 5 conference titles, never having ended up second best in the conference, they have the highest number while doing this, however, 3 other teams can claim the same 100% ratio: Houston (3-3), Milwaukee (2-2), Indiana (1-1)

- not quite sure what to make of this because I'm sure we have had #2 seedings or worse in the past although I can't remember if we won the division in those seasons too... I just remember not having homecourt against the Grizzlies one year I think.

Also, quote:
The Raptors 10 playoff appearances match the Sonics for the most, however, Toronto won on average 3.2 more games than did the Supersonics.

Sonics have 13 according to:
bballsim56.com/UOSLR/historicalperformance.htm

[shaunkol]

Great article ... keeps the league performance in perspective

[csdude07]

Outstanding article, just like the previous one. Hopefully I'll have another * sometime soon.

[ib4]

props to the bulls GM that took over my horrible team when i left initially

[Clifford "Poop" Harris]

Great Article, 5 from me.

An power ranking based on the future of these franchises would pwn

[DB]

really nice job, my franchise seems to be on the rise. Hopefully the next 7 years or so can move me up.

[DB]

awful playoff showing, jeeze.

[Brophdog88]

Jan 11, 2010 9:01:07 GMT -5 Tigertecz said:

+5

Nice twist on the original article, and some interesting tidbits at the bottom.

Quote:
Chicago has won 5 division titles….and 5 conference titles, never having ended up second best in the conference, they have the highest number while doing this, however, 3 other teams can claim the same 100% ratio: Houston (3-3), Milwaukee (2-2), Indiana (1-1)

- not quite sure what to make of this because I'm sure we have had #2 seedings or worse in the past although I can't remember if we won the division in those seasons too... I just remember not having homecourt against the Grizzlies one year I think.

Also, quote:
The Raptors 10 playoff appearances match the Sonics for the most, however, Toronto won on average 3.2 more games than did the Supersonics.

Sonics have 13 according to:
bballsim56.com/UOSLR/historicalperformance.htm

My mistake, I forgot to remove that quote cause I copy pasted the formatting from the last article, also, regarding the ending up never second best it means you haven't won your division but not had the best record in the east, it would be impossible for me to get the overall number one's...although I would love too, since I used my playoff predictions to determine the division winners, also I missed one year, so maybe that year I missed

[sagapolutele50]

wowsers very informative and an enjoyable read, surprised to see we are 3rd after the previous 4 years,.. Ill take it.. Onwards and upwards I say!!

[Kruwaukee]

There were some large gains by teams, the Rockets, who went to the finals three times but won no titles, and the Bucks and Magic, who both capitalized on retirements for the Bulls, not to mention garnering some talent of their ownand won a title catapulting them up the rankings.

Not sure what you mean by this I won my title when the Bulls still had all their guys in tact from their dynasty run.

[Brophdog88]

Jan 11, 2010 19:29:17 GMT -5 Kruwaukee said:

There were some large gains by teams, the Rockets, who went to the finals three times but won no titles, and the Bucks and Magic, who both capitalized on retirements for the Bulls, not to mention garnering some talent of their ownand won a title catapulting them up the rankings.

Not sure what you mean by this I won my title when the Bulls still had all their guys in tact from their dynasty run.

Scottie Pippen

[Before I'm Gone]

Jan 11, 2010 8:17:54 GMT -5 Before I'm Gone said:

Which los angeles were you talking about?

[Brophdog88]

Jan 11, 2010 22:46:22 GMT -5 Before I'm Gone said:

Jan 11, 2010 8:17:54 GMT -5 Before I'm Gone said:

Which los angeles were you talking about?

what are you talking about