Thoughts on Power Rankings

Posted on LakersGround.net on 4/4/06.

As a general rule, I dislike Power Rankings. What do they mean? Is it how likely they are to win the NBA championship? How the teams would perform in an round robin tournament held this very instant? Where they are likely to finish the season? Most Power Ranking I have seen are really the teams sorted by record and then adjusted for strength of schedule and short term momentum.

So, if you are using the last definition, you could use either here or here as your source for team ranking adjusted for strength of schedule. Then, you could have some rules about how much you adjust a team up or down based upon their last games and their current winning (or losing) streak).