RIOT -- NBA Playoff Races
NBA PLAYOFF RACES

Better than Magic Numbers!

For those new to the site, here's what we do: RIOT provides users exclusive data for each team, including:

  1. Number of additional games, if won, guarantees a first-place finish
  2. Number of additional games, if won, guarantees a playoff spot
  3. Number of games team must win to avoid elimination from first place
  4. Number of games team must win to avoid elimination from playoffs

These numbers are more informative than magic numbers, since they take into account each team's remaining schedule of games. More details about the numbers and the method of their calculation are available.

Information is updated daily, so be sure to return every day. Click on conference logos above to check out who's on the fast track for the playoffs, and who's already done for the year.

Logos copyright National Basketball Association, 1996


This project is made possible by Professor Dorit S. Hochbaum's ONR research grant N00014-91-J-1241.


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