I was messing around in the Liberty Ballers Slack channel and suggested a power ranking for the new season based on how much fun each month will be, which was when resident stat-guy/genius/literally-does-everything Andrew Patton told me he’d already devised a ranking of what NBA teams were the most fun last year based on the following criteria:
- Steals
- Blocks
- Field goal percentage
- Assists
- Touches
- Fast break points
- Dunks
- Monster performances
Andrew’s rankings also take points off for:
- Fouls
- Free throw attempts
- Timeouts
and uses the following things in some way:
The formula he uses is confusing and involves knowledge of some programming stuff that I know nothing about, because my entire knowledge of coding consists of how to make a basic, one-page website circa 2005.