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Rankings, team ratings, and scatter charts on the web

AdjO, AdjD, AdjT, Luck and the scatter chart presets explained.

📍 Where to find it: stats.sportsvisio.com → Rankings (home); scatter charts on the analytics pages

🔒 Who can do this: requires Rankings need the program's sport to support full analytics; scatter charts are available across sports.

The Rankings page is the home screen of SportsVisio Analytics (the web product at stats.sportsvisio.com). It's a KenPom-style table that rates and ranks teams by how efficiently they play, not just by wins and losses. This page explains each column, then the scatter charts that plot players against two stats at once.

Before you start

  • Rankings is a web feature. It lives on SportsVisio Analytics, not in the mobile app.

  • Some analytics depend on your program's sport. If the Rankings table or a chart described here doesn't appear, it may not be part of your program's sport.

Reading the Rankings columns

These are efficiency-style ratings. A few points before the definitions:

  • "Adjusted" (the Adj columns) means the number is adjusted for the strength of the opponents a team has faced, so teams with tougher schedules aren't penalized for it.

  • We describe each column in plain language below. Where SportsVisio doesn't publish an exact formula, we don't invent one. Treat those as directional ("higher/lower is better"), not precise recipes.

  • AdjO, Adjusted Offensive Efficiency, how well a team scores, adjusted for opponent strength. Higher is better.

  • AdjD, Adjusted Defensive Efficiency, how well a team defends, adjusted for opponent strength. Lower is better (fewer points allowed for the quality of opposition).

  • AdjT, Adjusted Tempo, the pace a team plays at (how many possessions it tends to use), adjusted for opponents. A higher number means a faster team; neither fast nor slow is inherently "better."

  • Net Rtg, Net Rating, a team's offensive rating minus its defensive rating. Higher is better.

  • Luck, a directional measure of whether a team's actual results are running ahead of or behind what its efficiency would suggest, for example, winning more close games than expected. A positive value leans lucky, a negative value unlucky; it doesn't mean a team is good or bad on its own.

  • Efficiency: an overall read on how efficiently a team plays on a per-possession basis, combining what it does at both ends. Higher is better.

  • Form: how a team has been playing recently, capturing whether it's trending up or down rather than its whole-season average.

  • Context: the situational context behind the rating, such as the quality of schedule and circumstances a team's numbers were produced against. Use it to judge how much weight to give the other columns.

  • Diff: a differential (margin) figure: the gap between what a team produces and what it gives up. Higher is better.

  • Pts/G, Points Per Game, a team's average points scored per game.

  • Streak: the current run of consecutive wins or losses.

Net Rtg is the one column with a published definition (offensive rating minus defensive rating). For AdjO, AdjD, AdjT, Luck, Efficiency, Form, and Context, use the plain-language descriptions above rather than a formula.

For team records and strength-of-schedule tiebreakers like WIN%, OWP, and Buchholz, see Team and standings terms.

Scatter charts

The scatter charts plot players against two stats at once, so you can spot who fits a role and who's an outlier. Each dot is a player. The two axes are two different stats, one left-to-right, one bottom-to-top, and where a dot sits tells the story.

How to read a scatter chart

  1. Look at the two axis labels to see which stats are being compared.

  2. Find a player's dot: its horizontal position is one stat, its vertical position is the other.

  3. Read the corners: the top-right dots are high on both stats, the bottom-left are low on both, and the two off-corners are high on one and low on the other. Outliers far from the pack are the players who stand out.

Chart presets

SportsVisio Analytics offers ready-made scatter presets so you don't have to pick axes yourself:

  • Usage vs Efficiency: how much a player is involved in the offense against how efficiently they score. Top-right dots are high-usage, high-efficiency players, your most productive options.

  • Creation vs Turnovers: how much a player creates against how often they give the ball away. It highlights playmakers who create without turning it over.

  • Rebounding Profile: plots a player's rebounding to show what kind of rebounder they are (for example offensive vs defensive strengths).

  • Scoring vs Impact: how much a player scores against their broader impact on the game, so you can separate pure scorers from all-around contributors.

For the player-level advanced stats these charts draw on (like PIE, ORtg, and DRtg), see Advanced and minutes-based stats.

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