There’s probably no more subjective ranking than ESPN’s Future Power Rankings, advertised as a “projection of the on-court success expected for each team over the next three seasons: 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26.”
It’s not just that you can’t easily predict what a team might look like in three years — Nets fans know this better than anyone — but the categories that are the building blocks of the rankings are also subjective. Each of the five categories that are part of overall rankings are assigned a different weight, from players, who account for a 58.3% of the final score, to money, market and draft, each with 8.