I thought you guys would find this interesting about our early schedule

according to this website which i found through google and have no idea how it is calculated, strength of schedule through today is as follows:

http://teamrankings.com/nba/27powerratings.php3

1. Cleveland (10-12) 0.099
2. Minnesota (3-17) 0.088
3. Miami (6-15) 0.087
4. Houston (12-11) 0.077
5. Portland (10-12) 0.055
6. LA Lakers (12-8) 0.035
7. Memphis (6-15) 0.032
8. Indiana (11-11) 0.031
9. Golden State (12-10) 0.031
10. Milwaukee (9-12) 0.026
11. Utah (13-10) 0.025
12. Orlando (16-7) 0.024
13. Sacramento (8-13) 0.024
14. Seattle (6-17) 0.013
15. Chicago (7-13) 0.012
16. Dallas (14-9) 0.006
17. Toronto (13-10) 0.001
18. New Jersey (9-13) -0.003
19. New York (6-15) -0.010
20. Atlanta (10-11) -0.024
21. Washington (11-10) -0.026
22. Charlotte (8-12) -0.031
23. New Orl/OKC (14-8) -0.035
24. Philadelphia (9-13) -0.040
25. LA Clippers (8-13) -0.044
26. Phoenix (17-6) -0.051
27. San Antonio (17-4) -0.070
28. Detroit (15-7) -0.072
29. Boston (18-2) -0.090
30. Denver (14-8) -0.107

I'm not a mathematician, but it does seem pretty clear that the worse record teams generally have the harder strength of schedule and vice-versa. This early in the season, I think that would be pretty obvious. If you have a bad record, it is pretty likely that all the teams you played have a better record than you.

Still, there is soem validity. the rocks have played the fewest home games in the West, and tied for the fewest in the league. they're tied for the most amount of games against Western Conf. teams. they've obviously had their fair share of back to backs, and played the teams that we know will be good at the end of the day a bunch already...

Phoenix = 2
Dallas = 2
San Antonio = 2
Lakers = 2
Utah, Detroit, Denver, Golden State once each....that's over half of their games so far

 

Yeah but we lose to crappy teams too. That's supposed to be called taking care of BUSINESS...

 

LOL Boston has had the second easiest schedule in the league.

 

Plus, I think we've played in a different building every game since early November. So, in terms of travel, it's almost like we've been on a month long road trip. That must have an effect, and I'm not sure that's taken into account in those strength of schedules.

We also have the best record among the 5 teams with the worst schedule to start the year. Granted, those other 4 teams aren't very good (Cleveland played with LeBron for 4 or 5 games).

I'll really trying to be uplifting here.

 

Why don't you just shut your piehole? You hate T-Mac. We get it. You've been a fan way before T-Mac came to town. Fine. Just don't keep repeating yourself in each thread. At least find one where you can say the same thing over and over. This thread, as indicated in the title, is about the Rocket's schedule. Why can't you just stick to that? You said this team is going nowhere with "him". Why don't we just sit T-Mac from now on and see where this team goes without "him"?