From: matthew@base.cs.ucla.edu (Matthew Merzbacher)
Subject: If the playoffs were held today (1/5)
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date:  5 Jan 93 20:04:44 GMT

Thanks to Gidi Avrahami, who sends me the standings every Tuesday.

Here's the weekly posting of "If the playoffs were today".
Full standings at end of post

I included the historical positions of 12-29, though I never posted them.

The seeding information is reverse chronological.  That is, the current
seed is listed the the left, with the position in past weeks going right.

Example:
3. (1,2,B,...) Bayonne (10-3)...

Means that Bayonne is #3 seed this week, and was #1 last week and #2 the
week before.  A week before that, they were 11th (in hex 11=B), and so on.

The tie-breaker is division record followed by conference-record.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

1. (1,2,1,1,1,1,1) CHI (22- 7) -+         Lead Division
                                |-+
8. (B,A,7,3,3,3,3) MIL (13-15) -+ |
                                  |-+
5. (5,5,3,4,6,B,5) NJN (16-13) -+ | |
                                |-+ |
4. (7,7,B,C,E,D,A) DET (15-12) -+   |
                                    |--
3. (3,3,9,7,9,7,7) CLE (18-12) -+   |
                                |-+ |
6. (6,8,5,6,5,5,B) CHA (15-13) -+ | |
                                  |-+
7. (4,4,8,5,2,2,4) ORL (13-12) -+ |
                                |-+
2. (2,1,2,2,4,4,2) NYK (18-10) -+         Lead Division

Games Behind (sorted by percentage)

GB  Pos Prior Position  Team
 .5  9  (8,6,4,8,7,6,6) IND (13-13)
1    10 (A,B,A,A,A,E,8) BOS (12-15)
1    11 (9,9,6,9,8,8,9) ATL (12-14)
4.5  12 (E,D,C,B,C,9,E) WAS ( 8-19)
4    13 (C,C,D,E,D,A,D) PHI ( 8-16)
4.5  14 (D,E,E,D,B,C,C) MIA ( 8-17)


WESTERN CONFERENCE

1. (1,1,1,4,4,5,4) PHO (21- 5) -+         Lead Division
                                |-+
8. (6,6,4,6,5,6,6) LAL (15-13) -+ |
                                  |-+
5. (8,9,8,A,8,A,D) SAN (15-12) -+ | |
                                |-+ |
4. (4,4,3,1,1,1,1) POR (18- 9) -+   |
                                    |--
T2 (3,3,6,3,3,3,3) SEA (19- 8) -+   |
                                |-+ |
T6 (9,8,9,B,B,9,A) GOL (16-13) -+ | |
                                  |-+
T6 (7,7,7,5,7,7,9) LAC (16-13) -+ |
                                |-+
T2 (2,2,2,2,6,4,2) UTA (19- 8) -+         Lead Division

Games Behind (sorted by percentage)

GB  Pos Prior Position  Team
 .5   9 (5,5,5,7,2,2,7) HOU (14-13)
3.5  10 (A,B,B,9,A,8,5) SAC (11-16)
7.5  11 (B,A,A,8,9,B,C) DEN ( 7-20)
7.5  12 (C,C,C,C,C,C,8) MIN ( 6-19)
11.5 13 (D,D,D,D,D,D,B) DAL ( 2-23)


NBA Standings for Tue, Jan 05

                 record      GB    div     conf    home    road   points/game
 EAST
 *Chicago       22  7 0.759  --    9  2   16  5   12  3   10  4   104.2  95.5
 *New_York      18 10 0.643  3.5   8  1   14  6   13  2    5  8    97.1  92.0
  Cleveland     18 12 0.600  4.5   6  4   11  6   13  4    5  8   108.4 102.5
  Detroit       15 12 0.556  6     6  6   14  7    9  3    6  9    98.1  98.1
  New_Jersey    16 13 0.552  6     4  5    9  8    7  7    9  6   104.8 104.8
  Charlotte     15 13 0.536  6.5   3  5   10  9    7  6    8  7   110.9 111.1
  Orlando       13 12 0.520  7     5  4    9  7    9  5    4  7   107.8 104.2
  Milwaukee     13 15 0.464  8.5   5  3   10  7    8  5    5 10   102.0 104.0
  Indiana       13 16 0.448  9     4  8    9 13    7  6    6 10   107.4 107.0
  Boston        13 17 0.433  9.5   5  5    8 11    8  5    5 12   104.3 106.5
  Atlanta       12 16 0.429  9.5   3  8    8 14    6  9    6  7   103.7 107.9
  Washington     9 20 0.310 13     3  5    5 15    7  7    2 13   103.8 110.4
  Philadelphia   8 18 0.308 12.5   3  5    6 12    3 10    5  8   106.4 112.7
  Miami          8 19 0.296 13     3  6    5 14    6  8    2 11    98.8 104.9

 WEST
 *Phoenix       21  5 0.808  --    9  3   14  4   12  1    9  4   114.2 106.4
  Seattle       19  8 0.704  2.5   6  3   12  4   14  1    5  7   108.9 100.4
 *Utah          19  8 0.704  2.5   7  2    9  4    9  4   10  4   107.9 102.6
  Portland      18  9 0.667  3.5   5  5   10  6   13  4    5  5   109.1 105.0
  San_Antonio   15 12 0.556  6.5   7  4   11  8    9  4    6  8   107.4 102.4
  Golden_State  16 13 0.552  6.5   4  6   12  7    7  6    9  7   114.2 112.7
  LA_Clippers   16 13 0.552  6.5   3  6    7 10   10  5    6  8   107.9 105.9
  LA_Lakers     15 13 0.536  7     5  7   11  9    8  6    7  7   103.5 102.9
  Houston       14 13 0.519  7.5   8  2   10  9    9  4    5  9   101.0 101.0
  Sacramento    11 16 0.407 10.5   4  6    7  8    8  6    3 10   108.3 107.1
  Denver         7 20 0.259 14.5   3  5    6 13    6  6    1 14   103.0 111.9
  Minnesota      6 19 0.240 14.5   3  5    3 12    3 10    3  9    99.1 106.3
  Dallas         2 23 0.080 18.5   0 10    1 19    2 10    0 13    99.0 117.4
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