You thought you could escape stressful-sounding Nate Silver predictions? Think again.
Yes, that's right: In addition to elections algorithms, Silver also has sports algorithms designed specifically to torture you, the reader. And his NBA model, referred to as RAPTOR, foresees an awful, awful season for the Golden State Warriors.
FiveThirtyEight's RAPTOR model, much like the site's polling models, is based on all sorts of complicated data that you can read more about here, if you really care. In layman's terms, it collects player ratings from each roster and then spits out a projection for the regular season, the postseason and the NBA Finals.