By taking into account both margin of victory and strength of schedule, the SRS is able to prevent a top dog in a weak conference from looking like the next showtime Lakers without punishing good teams who can’t blow out every other team in stronger conferences.ĪQI - Adjusted Quality Index: Similar to the SRS in that it accounts for strength of opponents and margin of victory, however, it’s also influenced by various on-court metrics so that it rewards teams that are either more well-rounded or incredibly dominant in a particular specialty. This metric looks past the “a win’s a win” mentality and values convincing wins over strong opponents. SRS - Simple Rating System: Values teams by the strength of their opponents and point differential. These adjustments resulted in the development of a new metric that I will explain below the SRS and AQI.

Recognizing that the playoffs had to be included in any all-time team ranking metric, I immediately began tinkering with the AQI. Due to data limitations, teams from before the 1974 NBA and 1972 ABA seasons will only be represented by the SRS. Another issue that was pointed out was that teams from the early years of the NBA were excluded due to lacking data, and because this is an All-Time Team list I have since included them for reference. They were entirely correct in stating as much, as the primary metric used was the Adjusted Quality Index (AQI) which only takes into account regular season data and severely underrated or completely excluded some notable teams that had less than impressive regular seasons (I.e. I’m back! Yesterday I posted The Top 75 Greatest NBA Teams of the Modern Era which, as many individuals kindly pointed out, should’ve been titled “Greatest Teams of the Regular Season”.

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