The Washington Wizards' march to their best regular season performance in over three decades has served as a gentle reminder that there's been a lot of bad basketball in Washington over the years. But every once in a while, you get served with a very blunt reminder that makes you just can't avoid.
Today's reminder comes from FiveThirtyEight, who ranked every team in NBA history, based on Elo Ratings. Here's an explanation on how Elo ratings work:
Elo is like the iPad of sports power ratings: Their design is quite simple, and they do a lot with a little, depending only on the final score of each game and where it was played.