From The Warriors To The Knicks, How We’re Predicting The 2018-19 NBA
The NBA is back in action this week, which means it’s time to fire up our NBA predictions again and see what the league’s future might hold. You may be amazed to learn that the 2018-19 Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets look good on paper, although the New York Knicks and Sacramento Kings… don’t.
OK, so that is not surprising at all. But in the space between the favorites and bottom-feeders, there are still some intriguing storylines and players to watch. And we’ll be bringing you a new method to adhere to those developments all season long after a tweak to the way we make predictions this year. Scroll down to the bottom if you would like the full details, but in brief, our interactive webpage now contains two projection alternatives: pure Elo and CARMELO.1 The former is well known to FiveThirtyEight readers — it is the simple version that looks on our franchise pages — but the latter is much more complicated, with group depth charts and upgrading player ratings to monitor exactly how much talent is on every team (after accounting for transactions, injuries and dissatisfied teammates).
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