Here I try to determine the difficulty of remaining schedule for some interesting teams.
I've found the Strength of Schedule on ESPN.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/stats/rpi?season=2008&sortColumn=sos
However, I can't seem to find strength of remaining schedule.
What I don't understand is how Boston Detroit and Pheonix can be so far down there yet be so high in the power rankings. Meh
If anyone wants to do a team, just post it in here. Anything else that goes into difficutly?
Without further ado, from hardest to easiest...
Suns
Hornets
Spurs
Rockets
Mavs
Lakers
Jazz
Suns schedule looks tough!
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Houston:
Home games: 16
Road games: 13
Back to backs: 5
VS Winning %: .522
VS East: 9
VS West: 20
New Orleans:
Home games: 16
Road games: 15
Back to backs: 8
VS Winning %: .545
VS East: 15
VS West: 16
San Antonio:
Home games: 16
Road games: 15
Back to backs: 6
VS Winning %: .529
VS East: 10
VS West: 21
Pheonix:
Home games: 15
Road games: 14
Back to backs: 5
VS Winning %: .554
VS East: 3
VS West: 26
Utah:
Home games: 16
Road games: 13
Back to backs: 6
VS Winning %: .499
VS East: 6
VS West: 23
Lakers:
Home games: 17
Road games: 13
Back to backs: 6
VS Winning %: .499
VS East: 5
VS West: 25
Dallas:
Home games: 15
Road games: 14
Back to backs: 5
VS Winning %: .508
VS East: 7
VS West: 22
So basically, every team has about half their games at home and half their games against +.500 teams. Amazing stuff.
Patrick - did Tom just own you?
I guess he tried, but he's obviously not very good at math. The Sun's schedule is much harder than the Jazz's. The relative % difference is big.
He's still sore cause the east sucks and Orlando beat his Pistons.
Get ready to eat some live fish Tom.
dude, i friggin aced math on those SAT thingys back in the day:) I guess it all gets down ones opinion on the number two.
One team plays 16 +.500 teams out of 29, the other plays 14 out of 29. If Houston played 1 less game against a +500 team and PHX played one more game against a +500 team, they would have the exact same vs winning% stat.
So basically, i find that difference to be negligible, haircut thinks its "big." So its not a question of mathmatics but a question of opinion on the relative value of the number two.
Yes, i am sore that the East sucks so hard. Is that how they repay me for always defending them?
However, i posted hours before the Pistons-Magic game tipped-off. Who sucks at math now. Crunch!
great data gathering shasher.
man i sitting here thinking "why aren't there any teams from the Least on there?"
and wow. how can this be considered fair?
upon further review of remaining schedules, this is what it looks like to me:
after the allstar break, and likely continuing through the first few rounds of the playoffs, the only legitimate contenders from the East get to pretty much take a vacation.
while the 6 best teams in the league (er, the West) get locked in a cage for 2 months, beating the snot out of each other.
i urge all of you to look at the remaining schedules of BOS, DET, and ORL and see for yourselves. at least BOS has a FEW tough games before the end of the season (they have a tough week in the middle of March. boo hoo). relative to any of the big guys out West, DET and ORL should be ashamed of themselves. they're prolly all gonna have better records than every team in the West at the end of the season.
WEAK!
for me, the Western conf finals are going to be much more meaningful than the NBA finals this year.
the Least doesn't have a leg to stand on. even if they did manage to win 4 of 7 against whoever survives the Western gauntlet, it's really not going to mean much to me. how can it?
i mean, there is a STARK difference in difficulty here, with regard to strength of remaining schedules. it's amazing to me, really. good work shasher, you ruined everything!
Wow, I've never heard such hate from Jake.
Haha, I'm sure Detroit and Orlando are feeling lots of shame. That's the funniest thing i've heard this week:)
It is not surpriseing East teams have easy schedules. They are in the East, so most their games are against East teams.
Thats why they been stringing up all those win streaks this year. If your are Detroit or Boston, there is only one team in your conf. they can lose to without it being a huge upset. Though, losing to Orlando is just an upset, i guess.
I watch a lot of piston games, and basically it feels like we are always playing the bucks.
I gotta disagree with you Jake on one point. I don't believe the West has the 6 best teams in the NBA. And, I don't think the entire East is a wash just cause it mostly is. I'm sure if the Pistons were on the otherside of the Mississippi, that would be enough to not hate all over them; but, they would still play the same; so that logic is null.
pistons suck.
you should be ashamed of yourself tom.
That was a bit of coincidence. My last post said seems like we play the bucks everynight, and turned out the pistons WERE playing the bucks that same day.
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