Rockets & Opponents SOS schedule.. season to date and remainder of season.

Wow, the Lakers got screwed this year, and just the opposite for Indiana.

Toronto looks to be in very good position to get HC in 1st round.

 

Thanks for the chart.

So Houston has a top 5 schedule for the entire season? Maybe 2nd only to the Lakers.

Looks like Toronto is going to make a run.

 

This kind of explains some things.

 

Great info!

Thanks

 

I thought this was cool until I realised that with the remaining schedule the top 15 teams are all from the WC, while the bottom 15 teams are all EC teams.

 

Wow how did we get stuck with that one? Kind of sucks. At least GSW & POR get a tough one too

 

Funny thing Milwaukee's schedule gets increasingly difficult but it does not matter.

Worst in the East with the hardest part

 

Funny that every west team has a harder remaining schedule than every east team. Shows how big of a gap there is between the two conferences right now.

 

Is the SOS relative in anyway?

Indiana has an amazingly easy schedule.

 

keep in mind that a really bad team will have a harder SOS than a really good team in the same division for obvious reasons.

 

When you are a good Eastern team, your schedule is going to be easy. There are few good opponents in the East for you to play against and you don't play against yourself so that's one less quality opponent. The opposite if you are a bad Western team.

 

I always felt doing strength of schedule by total win % was a bit silly. It's not as bad in basketball because there are so many games, but in football I always thought it was disingenuous to say a team has an easy schedule because there is a really crappy team in their division. Like the year the Colts went 1-15 and everyone was saying how the Texans had an easy schedule the next year because of the Colts' 1-15 record counting twice in that calculation. You can only get two wins out of those games.

 

If I were a betting man I would say the NBA Champion is in the Good Team Hard Schedule bunch but I may be a little biased.

 

gotta go my damn weiner kids are listening...

 

You might as well say you think it is going to be one of the Western teams.

 

Indy's schedule too.... This is why I can't take EC win record seriously. They have the softest schedules ever. Its a complete joke.

 

Didn't seem to matter when the Heat won the title the last two seasons. An easy schedule=more rest so its not so clear cut.