winning close games, winning blowouts

This is just a random stat I was looking at earlier today that may be of interest (game results collected from dougstats.com).

Winning% in games decided by 3 points or less over previous 3 seasons:

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      tm      W       L       win%
1     por     30      10      0.750
2     no      25      12      0.676
3     dal     26      13      0.667
4     orl     25      15      0.625
5     tor     17      12      0.586
6     sas     23      18      0.561
7     hou     19      15      0.559
8     gs      20      16      0.556
9     cle     22      18      0.550
10    pho     14      12      0.538
11    was     24      21      0.533
12    lal     17      17      0.500
13    mia     23      23      0.500
14    uta     15      15      0.500
15    cha     16      16      0.500
16    nj      18      19      0.486
17    den     17      18      0.486
18    bos     19      21      0.475
19    atl     17      19      0.472
20    chi     17      20      0.459
21    okc     22      26      0.458
22    det     16      19      0.457
23    ind     18      22      0.450
24    mil     16      20      0.444
25    ny      15      19      0.441
26    phi     19      26      0.422
27    min     16      26      0.381
28    sac     17      28      0.378
29    lac     11      19      0.367
30    mem     9       28      0.243

And so far this season:

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      tm     W       L       win%
1     lal    5       0       1.000 
2     dal    5       1       0.833
3     lac    4       1       0.800
4     no     3       1       0.750
5     mia    3       1       0.750
6     den    3       1       0.750
7     por    2       1       0.667
8     bos    4       2       0.667
9     det    2       1       0.667
10    mem    2       1       0.667
11    pho    3       2       0.600
12    uta    3       2       0.600
13    sac    3       2       0.600
14    chi    4       3       0.571
15    tor    1       1       0.500
16    hou    3       3       0.500
17    atl    1       1       0.500
18    ind    2       2       0.500
19    phi    4       4       0.500
20    okc    2       3       0.400
21    orl    1       2       0.333
22    sas    1       2       0.333
23    cle    1       2       0.333
24    cha    2       4       0.333
25    min    2       4       0.333
26    was    2       6       0.250
27    nj     1       4       0.200
28    mil    2       8       0.200
29    gs     0       2       0.000
30    ny     0       4       0.000

Next, winning blowouts (20+ points margin), prior 3 seasons:

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      tm     W       L       win%
1     bos    36      5       0.878 
2     lal    28      5       0.848
3     cle    27      5       0.844
4     sas    33      7       0.825
5     det    23      5       0.821
6     orl    30      7       0.811
7     hou    26      8       0.765
8     pho    32      11      0.744
9     uta    34      13      0.723
10    dal    31      12      0.721
11    den    24      13      0.649
12    por    19      12      0.613
13    tor    22      15      0.595
14    phi    16      14      0.533
15    no     16      15      0.516
16    chi    16      16      0.500
17    gs     18      27      0.400
18    ind    10      16      0.385
19    ny     11      24      0.314
20    mia    12      27      0.308
21    atl    7       16      0.304
22    was    11      31      0.262
23    mil    9       26      0.257
24    lac    12      39      0.235
25    cha    8       29      0.216
26    nj     8       29      0.216
27    min    7       29      0.194
28    sac    7       30      0.189
29    okc    7       33      0.175
30    mem    5       25      0.167

And this season ...

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      tm     W       L       win%
1     dal    3       0       1.000 
2     por    4       0       1.000
3     bos    4       0       1.000
4     sac    1       0       1.000
5     okc    1       0       1.000
6     sas    3       0       1.000
7     cle    1       0       1.000
8     den    4       1       0.800
9     atl    7       2       0.778
10    lal    3       1       0.750
11    uta    3       1       0.750
12    pho    6       3       0.667
13    orl    2       1       0.667
14    mia    3       2       0.600
15    det    2       2       0.500
16    cha    2       2       0.500
17    mil    1       1       0.500
18    ny     1       1       0.500
19    lac    2       3       0.400
20    no     1       2       0.333
21    tor    3       6       0.333
22    hou    1       2       0.333
23    mem    1       3       0.250
24    gs     1       4       0.200
25    chi    0       5       0.000
26    ind    0       2       0.000
27    phi    0       3       0.000
28    min    0       8       0.000
29    was    0       2       0.000
30    nj     0       3       0.000

 

Its possible that a lot of those wins the Rockets were leading by much more, and they just barely eked out a win after giving up the lead.

That's the next step. Win/Loss records after being up (or down) x points with 5 minutes remaining. That could be interesting.