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NBA Power Rankings Update: The Philadelphia 76ers' Process Is Working

Russell Peddle  —  @rustypedalbike Feb 15th, 2018
Everything's going right in Philadelphia these days. The Sixers are on a five-game winning streak and move up into our top tier as a result.

The NBA standings do not always tell the whole story when it comes to determining which teams are truly playing the best brand of basketball.

Simple win-loss records don't factor in things like strength of schedule, efficiency, average margin of victory, and so on. That's where our power rankings come in.

Using our proprietary metric, nERD -- a ranking on a scale from 0-100, with 50 as the league average, which is predictive of a team's ultimate winning percentage based on its efficiency -- we put teams in order of how well they've actually been performing this season, regardless of their number of wins and losses.

The idea is that this list will give you a better picture of how things are likely to shake out by season's end than the plain and simple standings would.

Without further ado, let's count the teams down from worst to best.

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