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Rank a franchise’s seasons head to head, with no opaque team score.
Players·Teams
Rank team seasons · Regular season
Los Angeles Lakers
Each selected season is compared head-to-head with every other using Team Season Compare; seasons earn Copeland points from those matchups. This is not an opaque “best team” score.
: 2025-26 and 2024-25 are separated by very little pairwise evidence.
Season ranking
Order by Copeland points (win = 1, even = 0.5, loss/unavailable = 0).
#12025-26
3 wins · 0 losses · 1 even · 3.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Efficiency, Rebounding, Performance, Shooting, Possessions
#22024-25
2 wins · 0 losses · 2 even · 3 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Shooting, Efficiency, Possessions, Rebounding, Performance
#32023-24
2 wins · 1 loss · 1 even · 2.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Efficiency, Possessions, Performance, Shooting
#42022-23
1 win · 3 losses · 0 even · 1 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Rebounding, Efficiency, Performance, Possessions
#52021-22
0 wins · 4 losses · 0 even · 0 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Rebounding, Shooting
Why is 2025-26 #1?
- 2025-26 wins its overall pairwise comparisons against 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 (3-0, 1 even).
- Across pairs, its most frequent category edges are: Efficiency, Rebounding, Performance, Shooting, Possessions.
- This season ranks first under the current Team Season Ranking methodology, which is not a universal “best team” score.
- The top of the ranking is close; small evidence gaps separate the leaders.
Advantages
Efficiency, Rebounding, Performance, Shooting, Possessions
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Trailing
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See the evidence · 2025-26
Games that show the #1 season’s scoreboard profile, not its “most important” games. Each opens Game Lab.
2025-26 · 82 final regular-season games in sample
@ WSH
W2026-01-30 · 142-111 (+31)
Why it appears
- Largest win+31
Open Game Lab
@ OKC
L2026-04-02 · 96-139 (-43)
Why it appears
- Largest defeat-43
Open Game Lab
@ UTAH
W2025-12-18 · 143-135 (+8)
Why it appears
- Highest-scoring game143 pts
Open Game Lab
vs OKC
L2026-04-07 · 87-123 (-36)
Why it appears
- Lowest-scoring game87 pts
Open Game Lab
vs PHX
W2026-04-10 · 101-73 (+28)
Why it appears
- Best defensive result73 opp pts
Open Game Lab
Evidence coverage & methodology
- ✓ Largest win
- ✓ Largest defeat
- ✓ Highest-scoring game
- ✓ Lowest-scoring game
- ✓ Best defensive result
Each category picks one final regular-season game by an explicit formula on team/opponent points. No composite game score.
Labels are descriptive (largest win, highest-scoring). Never “most important” or causal “won because.”
- Best / worst eFG% or TS% game: not on schedule rows; requires box/Game Lab aggregates.
- Best rebounding game: no team game rebound fields on GameSummary.
- Turnover differential: not on GameSummary.
- Pace / possessions / win probability / PBP importance: not available.
Head-to-head matrix
Each cell is the row season’s overall result against the column season. Click a cell for the full Team Season Compare.