Euroleague 2012-13 Ranking (Group Phase)

Before the Top 16 phase, let's analyze which team is the best and which one is the worst. This analyze based on team's offensive and defensive performance. It also includes team's distribution curve of winning percentage at their 10 games. Every entry is examimed by their position according to Euroleague origin on the corresponding entry. It's not only how they played against their opponents , also about how they stop their opponents. Basicly, the best team which established their game against any opponent and prevent their opponents to show a good performance against them will take the number one spot. By the way,strength of schedule for every group is also taken into consideration.

Numbers above, show the positions of team's performance stats. X coordinates stand for team's own performance and Y coordinates stand for how they handle their opponents. And finally RP is the rating point which will decide team's destiny.OK, yeah not the destiny maybe, but it will be decide their rankings. Ranking table will be formed like;

Here are the rankings. Barcelona is the best team in the group phase as expected, and their local rival Real Madrid is the runner up. Other group leaders Maccabi and Zalgiris are right behind them. There are some interesting scoops too. For example, Partizan was better than some Top 16 teams. And also, Caja Laboral which clinched  to Top 16 in the last day of the group phase, is one of the worst teams so far.