ADUJSTED NBA STANDINGS REVISITED.

ADJUSTED NBA STANDINGS REVISITED. Today is the NBA All Star Game. On January 1, I posted adjusted standings which corrected for the fact that some teams had played a lot more home games than road games. I planned to revisit the standings at the All Star break. The main conclusion is that there isn’t much value to adjusted standings at this point in the season. Most teams have now played roughly the same number of home and road games so that the regular standings are now a good guide to how well they have done. The exceptions would be Milwaukee with nine fewer home games than road games, San Antonio and Philadelphia with five fewer home games, and Denver with five more home games than road games, The only team this matters for is Denver, which would be two games behind Minnesota rather than one and a half games ahead if adjusted standings were used. On January 1, the adjusted standings showed Toronto with a big lead in its division. Toronto’s division now shows up clearly.