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Rank a franchise’s seasons head to head, with no opaque team score.
Players·Teams
Rank team seasons · Regular season
Golden State Warriors
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 2024-25 are separated by very little pairwise evidence.
Season ranking
Order by Copeland points (win = 1, even = 0.5, loss/unavailable = 0).
#12023-24
3 wins · 0 losses · 1 even · 3.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Possessions, Rebounding, Performance, Efficiency
#22024-25
3 wins · 0 losses · 1 even · 3.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Possessions, Rebounding, Performance, Shooting
#32022-23
1 win · 2 losses · 1 even · 1.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Efficiency, Shooting, Performance, Rebounding
#42021-22
1 win · 3 losses · 0 even · 1 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Performance, Possessions, Efficiency
#52025-26
0 wins · 3 losses · 1 even · 0.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Performance✓ Efficiency✓ Shooting✓ Rebounding✓ Possession
Most often stronger in: Rebounding, Efficiency, Possessions
Why is 2023-24 #1?
- 2023-24 wins its overall pairwise comparisons against 2021-22, 2022-23, 2025-26 (3-0, 1 even).
- Across pairs, its most frequent category edges are: Possessions, Rebounding, Performance, Efficiency.
- 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
Possessions, Rebounding, Performance, Efficiency
Close
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Trailing
Shooting
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
vs MIL
W2024-03-06 · 125-90 (+35)
Why it appears
- Largest win+35
Open Game Lab
@ BOS
L2024-03-03 · 88-140 (-52)
Why it appears
- Largest defeat-52
- Lowest-scoring game88 pts
Open Game Lab
vs LAL
L2024-01-27 · 144-145 (-1)
Why it appears
- Highest-scoring game144 pts
Open Game Lab
vs CHA
W2024-02-23 · 97-84 (+13)
Why it appears
- Best defensive result84 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.