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Rank a franchise’s seasons head to head, with no opaque team score.
Players·Teams
Rank team seasons · Regular season
Phoenix Suns
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.
: 2023-24 and 2021-22 are separated by very little pairwise evidence.
Season ranking
Order by Copeland points (win = 1, even = 0.5, loss/unavailable = 0).
#12023-24
2 wins · 0 losses · 2 even · 3 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Efficiency, Performance, Rebounding, Shooting
#22021-22
2 wins · 1 loss · 1 even · 2.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Performance, Possessions, Efficiency
#32024-25
0 wins · 0 losses · 4 even · 2 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Efficiency, Shooting, Possessions
#42022-23
1 win · 2 losses · 1 even · 1.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Rebounding, Performance, Possessions, Shooting
#52025-26
0 wins · 2 losses · 2 even · 1 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Rebounding, Performance, Possessions, Shooting
Why is 2023-24 #1?
- 2023-24 wins its overall pairwise comparisons against 2021-22, 2022-23 (2-0, 2 even).
- Across pairs, its most frequent category edges are: Efficiency, Performance, Rebounding, Shooting.
- 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, Performance, Rebounding, Shooting
Close
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Trailing
Possessions
See the evidence · 2023-24
Games that show the #1 season’s scoreboard profile, not its “most important” games. Each opens Game Lab.
2023-24 · 82 final regular-season games in sample
@ WSH
W2024-02-04 · 140-112 (+28)
Why it appears
- Largest win+28
- Highest-scoring game140 pts
Open Game Lab
@ LAC
L2024-01-08 · 111-138 (-27)
Why it appears
- Largest defeat-27
Open Game Lab
vs LAC
L2024-04-09 · 92-105 (-13)
Why it appears
- Lowest-scoring game92 pts
Open Game Lab
vs MIN
W2024-04-05 · 97-87 (+10)
Why it appears
- Best defensive result87 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.