SRS is your average margin plus the average rating of everyone you have played. That is circular on purpose — your rating depends on theirs and theirs on yours — so it is solved by repeating until the numbers stop moving. Read it as points: +6.0 is about six points better than an average team on a neutral floor, and the gap between two teams' SRS is the spread.

SOS is how hard the schedule has been, in the same points. A 12-0 record against nobody is not a rating, which is the whole reason this column exists.

Points scored and conceded per hundred possessions, where a possession is FGA − OREB + TO + 0.44·FTA — the estimate basketball has used for forty years. A fast team scores more and concedes more; rating it on points per game calls it a better offence and a worse defence than it is. PACE is possessions a game, printed on its own because it says how a team plays, not how good it is.

These need box scores, not just final scores — a game filed as a result with no box score contributes to SRS and to nothing on this screen.

The four things a basketball team can do to win, in the order they matter: shoot it better (EFG%, which counts a three as what it is worth), keep it (TOV%, turnovers per possession — lower is better), get it back (ORB%, the share of your own misses you rebound), and get to the line (FT RATE, free throws attempted per field goal attempt).

A team that is bottom of the league in offensive rating is bottom for one of these four reasons, and this is the screen that says which.

PYTH is the win rate your points scored and allowed say you deserve, and LUCK is real wins minus that, in games. The exponent is 13.91 — basketball's, not football's 2.37. Using the wrong one is how a page tells a 30-40 team it ought to be 45-25.

Orange means winning more than the points say, so expect a correction. Blue means better than the record, and due for better days.