From The Warriors To The Knicks, How We’re Predicting The 2018-19 NBA

The NBA is back in action this week, so it is time to fire up our NBA predictions again and see what the team’s future might hold. You could be amazed to learn the 2018-19 Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets look good on paper, while the New York Knicks and Sacramento Kings… don’t.
OK, so that is not surprising. But in the space between bottom-feeders and the favorites, there are nonetheless gamers and a few intriguing storylines to watch. And we’ll be bringing you a new way to adhere to those improvements all season long after a tweak to how we make predictions this season. 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 subscribers — it’s the very simple version that appears on our franchise pages — but the latter is far more complicated, using team depth charts and upgrading player ratings to track just how much talent is on every team (after accounting for trades, injuries and disgruntled teammates).