The Correlation of NBA Team Statistics with Regular Season Wins

June 17, 2018

Traditional Statistics

Points per game had a Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0 with wins over the last five NBA regular seasons.

Advanced Statistics

Offensive Rating had a Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0 with wins over the last five NBA regular seasons.

All data was taken from NBA.com. It includes data from the 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018 regular NBA seasons.