Team leaderboards
Every team season since 1996–97, offence and defence on the same true-shot-attempt scale. A team’s defence is the same box score read from the other side, so the two can never disagree.
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Point margin decomposes exactly into an efficiency edge (net points per TSA) and a volume edge (TSA differential: the extra chances won on the glass and through turnovers). “Opp” columns are what the team allowed. Aggregating seasons sums the counts and recomputes every rate; the NBA columns, which cannot be rebuilt from counts, are possession-weighted means over the seasons.
Rankings place each team among every team that season, regular season and playoffs separately: 1 is the best, or the highest for stats where neither end is better, like pace or the share of shots at the rim. A team filter keeps the league rank. Over several seasons a team is ranked on its totals against every team’s totals for the same seasons. Offensive and defensive ratings are points per 100 possessions counted from play-by-play, so they reach back to 1996–97; where the NBA publishes its own, the two are within about 0.2 points on average. The rank sum adds the offence and defence ranks and ignores the size of the gaps, so it can disagree with the net rating rank. Rebound and turnover ranks use the NBA’s figures.