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NBA Power Rankings Update: Are the Golden State Warriors Still the Best Team in the League?

Russell Peddle  —  @rustypedalbike Nov 16th, 2018
We haven't had much movement at the top spot in our power rankings over the last few years. This week, there might be other contenders.

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 to 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 traditional standings would.

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

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