The Detroit Pistons didn’t do much to earn anybody’s optimism last season, and they’re seeing the evidence of that in this season’s prognostications. ESPN’s Kevin Pelton’s Real Plus Minus projections gave them 35.1 wins (and a playoff spot), their Forecast Panel projected them at 37 wins with no playoff appearance, and the Westgate Las Vegas set their over-under at 37.5 wins.
Next up comes ESPN’s Basketball Power Index, or BPI. We’ll take a look at just what the BPI actually is.
BPI is a forward-looking model that predicts the strength of each team on offense, defense and altogether.