SOS Update and News

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  1. Boise Blazer

    Boise Blazer Thread Lightly

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    http://espn.go.com/nba/stats/rpi/_/sort/SOS

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    http://www.xnsports.com/2013/12/04/nba-season-stats-strength-schedule-insights/

    http://www.playoffstatus.com/nba/westernsosrg.html

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    http://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2014.html#all_team_stats

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    SRS (Simple Rating System, Simple Rating System; a team rating that takes into account average point differential and strength of schedule. The rating is denominated in points above/below average, where zero is average.)

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  2. magnifier661

    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    So we have the fourth hardest schedule to date?


    Go Blazers!
     
  3. BlazerCaravan

    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    13th, from what I'm reading. The way we've won has made our Simple Ratings System value 3rd highest in the league.
     
  4. Samuel

    Samuel James “Hollywood” Robinson

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  5. Eastoff

    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    TL;DR we have an average strength of schedule. So we're doing really well and nobody can claim we aren't playing hard opponents.
     
  6. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    Just that we are getting those hard opponents at home of the second night of their b2b.

    That will of course even out though
     
  7. blue9

    blue9 Well-Known Member

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    Never mind the fact that we've played 5 sets of B2Bs, beating SAS (home), GSW (road) and IND (home) on the 2nd nights.
    Has anyone had more B2Bs than us to this point?
     
  8. Rastapopoulos

    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    I maintain that this stat is pretty much meaningless. For example, teams that played Minnesota in the first month played a team with a great winning %. Did they play a great team? Also, it fails to take into account things like players missing from teams with good records because of an injury the previous game, road/home, back-to-back, etc. One could argue that Portland has a special disadvantage because it is the most geographically isolated team (if it is - I think it is...) and so has to fly the most of any team. Of course, then you could argue that this is a home advantage because the opposing teams have a higher average flight time.

    There is a limit to the power of stats.
     
  9. blue9

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    Pretty much agree. It's about as meaningful as +/-.
     
  10. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    I haven't looked, but I can't imagine a team has played more.
     
  11. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    And we were playing our third game in four nights.... they played the Kings last, we played the Pacers, which do you think was more difficult?
     
  12. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    I wasn't arguing for either side, just pointing out what experts are saying.

    My personal opinion is playing on the road trumps most everything else, so I would go with the Zombie Sonics.
     
  13. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    And I'm sure they did their best...

    [video=youtube;w3UQwyKrTtI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3UQwyKrTtI[/video]
     

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