History teaches us a lot. But for one reason or another, we often refuse to take history into account when predicting NBA playoff series winners.
Coaches, player personnel, and other surrounding circumstances could be key reasons for that because of the fact that they're not always the same for the same seed from year-to-year. Unlike those three things, we can look at which team is better and by how much.
Here at numberFire, we measure that objectively through our nERD metric, a team ranking that is predictive of a team's ultimate winning percentage. The scale for nERD goes from 0 to 100 with 50 as the league average.