Classic the hawks are right in the middle of being fun to watch too lol

I don’t think these results should be controversial, its a formula based on lead changes/volatility, this was really cool to look at and read.

Gotta agree with the Wolves. Most fun team to watch this season, and especially at home with those beautiful jerseys & enthusiastic fans

So you are saying it will be worth it to stay up until midnight to watch Wolves at Nugs?

That tracks, Brunson hasn’t had to do a ton in the clutch this year relatively speaking. Only played 10 games.

Tracks for Detroit too. Crazy record but basically all heart attacks.

Nuggets fan, I can confirm it is true. My blood pressure rises every game.

This tracks for the pistons season lol. It’s been so fun, and even the losses are really close clutch games

Every metric and graph in the world show how depressing the Wizards are. I still don’t understand why people (outside of DC) chose to be fans of this franchise.

San Antonio is definitely in the right position. After the opening game, it wasn’t until December that we had a comfortable, blowout win. The Spurs have been a pretty dang good clutch-time team. Although, with Wemby back in the lineup, there’s been a lot more blowouts.

I knew I wasn’t having fun watching the wizards get blown out every night. Now I have the numbers to back that up

when watching my favorite team the last thing I want is a close game, give me start to finish blow outs. Now when watching other teams, I don’t watch them at all

I think this is a cool idea but basing it off game volatility conflates close games with excitement. It’s not a bad hunch but what this ends up doing is privileging a bunch of teams who might not be very good and punishing teams who might be exciting but dominant.

For instance, analytically, I imagine the 2015-16 Warriors were “boring” for the same reasons the 2025-26 Thunder are. But I would say people were entranced by the Warriors and were thrilled by the avalanches that led to blowouts. How do you quantify that? You might use threes, dunks, and what Evan Miya in CBB calls “kill shots”—big, long runs.

Anyway, just some musings! I think this is a fun idea

It’s a very weird experience opening a post like this knowing my Spurs are going to be near the top of the “exciting” axis.

Duncan would be spinning in his grave if he wasn’t already in the stands cheering.

A fun mini-game for this chart: Go and find Miami

I actually think the nets are a decent team, shouldn’t be in the same category as Wizards

Every “best team” is usually the least exciting to see win. when winning is the expectation, it’s not as exciting because meeting expectations is always less interesting than subverting expectations.

I’m a huge OKC fan and I’ll admit that watching them easily win so many games has been less exciting… but it’s always going to be exciting if you’re another team beating a good team. I’m honestly enjoying this spurs series just because I care more

Idk man I’ve watched every Suns game and almost all of them have been exciting and close

Sounds more like you created something based off a solution rather than actual entertainment value

We went from the most fun team I’ve seen in ages to a brutal painful watch.

This entire post is AI on a vibe coded project.

Honestly makes sense. Some games I watch, my wife is like, “turn it off, I feel bad for the other team” 😂. But at the same time, when we lose, the excitement completely flips! Fans love to watch a great team lose in any sport

I don’t think Knicks games are boring to watch at all lol.

Hawks being almost dead center is pretty funny lol. But they’ve had a ton of games go down to the final possession this season, so make sense to see them on the exciting side.

OP u/Kitchen_Animal_2644

How are you weighting each category?

I looked at your website and it doesn’t say anything about what is valued more for each metric that you list.

And honestly, all of these don’t mean that a game is exciting if no one is at the game or watching on TV.

You completely missed that in your equation.

Great post and awesome input! This checks out for the blazers. Every game is a heart attack and we lose most of them. But the ones we won, boy are they thrilling

The fact that you have the Suns (a team expected to win 26 games preseason) in the lower middle pack basically trashes this exercise.

Gritty, no quit basketball where they routinely take every game down to the last possession. One of the best benches in the NBA & haven’t been healthy all season.

7-1 vs Lakers, Wolves & Spurs…you need to adjust your modality or actually watch them play. You’ll enjoy it.

Fun to watch? As a wolves fan, nah.. all this clutch minutes is gonna be the end of me.

I do love watching Nuggets basketball, but that may be because I live here now

Plus we have Shaedon dropping massive dunks all the time. Always fun.

My goodness I wish we had a healthy point guard 😢

We have eyes, Greg

Your model works great! My eye test agreed with your results! I love watching the Nuggets, Spurs, and Wolves. Now I have math to back that up!

Starting to look like the mavs might get into the play-in 9 or 10 before the season ends.

I don’t think the griz are going to stay top ten in west….. 

I’m sorry I watch us all the time. Ask any opponent our grifting and slow based bullshit is so grim to watch

I’m enjoying watching them and the ride ⚡☝️

A FUCKIN WOOOOO

All you have to do is look at Boston ’s run, and how many posts there were about it being “boring basketball”

Not so surprisingly, the Spurs and Nuggets are my two League Pass teams (although tbf, the Knicks are there too, but that’s because I grew up a Knicks fan). This was cool, thanks for posting.

So we’re the spurs and how did that turn out?

Cleveland, Phoenix, Golden State, Orlando all more exciting to watch than the Knicks? I don’t think so at all.

Game is dead.

I think what you’ve really done here is help me realize that I have ADHD

There is no way the clippers are this exciting.

I never thought I’d see the words “Elite & Thrilling” to describe the Timberwolves like 5 years ago.

Super cool model, it also seems to match the eye test.

I’m a wolves fan, but the teams I also enjoy watching are the spurs, Lakers, pistons, and nuggets.

I also watch the suns but that’s only to hate watch dillon brooks

Reddit Snake Oil.

The Turd quarter is doing a lot of heavy lifting for us. For us no need to watch the 1st half at all for excitement. All the fun starts in the second half. Somehow we blow 20 point leads, go into clutch and then win. Philly is just us on steroids but less of the winning part.

As a grizzlies fan, can confirm. Good job op

Makes sense. The 2000s era spurs were the most boring team in sports history and they dominated.

Shai and the others as re extremely satisfying to watch. I like their games but I guess it’s not exciting?

Pistons fans don’t need this matrix.

Ahem, it looks to me as if you didn’t mention the most elite AND exciting team in the league.

Mavs games are consistently clutch. Mavs fans need to get their hearts checked by end of the season.

As a Pacers fan, this tracks. Always love my team, but its a tough year to watch.

Spot on with Chicago. They are 7-2 in games decided by 3 points or less, no other team in the league comes close in the volume of 3 point games. Most top teams are 4-3 (DET) or 3-4 (DEN) are something similar.

They’ve been entertaining in the quest for another useless play-in season.

Raptors are a team that is a bit efficient however can be a bit boring when they arent hitting their shots.

I’d be curious to see the results after including dunks and posters to the formula

Idk man i find the Knicks to be the most exciting and coolest team in the world

I mean the Tim Duncan spurs were also “boring” so I’ll take that any day

Suns being this low makes me doubt your whole thing here

The nets take is off. They have about as many wins already as most thought they would all year. Just had a month they had the best defensive rating and are giving a ton of rookies crazy amounts of play time.

No one wants to watch fake fouls and free throws. Rigged ring.

The “Cardiac Bulls” nicknamed is finally backed up by science, I love it.

I think you defined excitement in a way that unfairly punishes OKC, but I expect there’s not many intuitive criteria that don’t.

For example, garbage time minutes, total FTAs, percentage of FGA with close or very close defender, percentage of FGA shot over double teams, number of assists, number of hockey assists (rough “ball is popping” measurement), etc, are all also good metrics for excitement that don’t explicitly just reward low net ratings.

Maybe I haven’t seen enough but I feel like 76ers are waaay too high on the excitement end. Have they had that many nail biters?

We dont dunk the ball enough

Awoooo most exciting team lfg.

This seems like a good post for /r/dataisbeautiful

damn, who could’ve guessed

Nuggets are the showstealers

Would love the interactive version! I’m also out of timezone fan and have been wanting something that rates games without spoiling them!

I’ll say as a blazer fan, even in our most tankiest tank seasons and having a coach purposely fixing games we always play fun basketball.

watching okc play isnt boring. they’re a well oiled machine. i love watching them play

Would love to hear more about the ReplayRank and how’s it’s calculated!

I mean at first I thought it was just an excuse to hate on OKC like everyone does but this actually makes sense they win a lot by a lot and close games are always way more exciting I felt the same boredom he’s speaking of when the Lakers were combing through the league in the early 2000’s. Now, would you replace winning for excitement I definitely would not but OP does make a good point and there are so many times people replace excitement with winning and its why most people lose in life eg: romantic relationships, investments etc…

Should prob include free throw rate for excitement calculations because no one wants to watch a ref fest.

I’m in the UK and would love to check this out great idea. I usually watch the ten minute recaps bit of I know the game was good without any spoilers or world be so awesome great idea

Cardiac Bulls baby

Since you posted that site a couple weeks ago I’ve been using it, combined with the all possessions recap from the league pass makes it perfect as an European.

Couldn’t recommend enough

So right about OKC and being boring. Last year is when it started and they’re were so few games that after the first quarter, I could tell if it was going to be an exciting game. Then a lot of times even the exciting games would be over by the end of the third or at the middle of the 4th. Although there have been more blowouts this year it’s also been exciting because of all the injuries that I would watch too see what role player would explode to lead to the blowouts. What’s intriguing is that our starting lineup hasn’t won a game yet. They are 0-3, partly is because iHart is still hobbled by his injuries and Chet has been sick. So they’ve been healthy enough to play together but not healthy enough to win, this along with that it’s our least played lineup over the last 2 years as they have played less than 50 games.

Or starting lineup has a net rating of -1.8

Damn this is A-1 research, glad to see the Spurs are up there. Great work OP, Bill Simmons might be lurking and bring this up on his League Pass rankings.

They suck to watch. Okc plays bitch ball

i could have told you this w/out all the matris bull shit. it is call actually watching and knowing basketball

This is what will catch up OKC in the playoffs, just like last year.

You become good at what you practice. OKC practices perfect regular season basketball with very few close games.

When defense ratchets up, stars play 40m+ and the easy calls disappear, it’s harder.

Yes they won last year but barely and needed the pacers’ star to get hurt.

We’ll see

ChatGPT clout farming posts should be banned.