ESPN's NBA Basketball Power Index (BPI) is a measure of team strength developed by the ESPN Analytics team. BPI is meant to be the best predictor of a team's performance for the rest of the season.

PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is BP’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past ...

Editor’s note: Previous versions of the simulation were incorrectly calculating each team’s odds of reaching the conference finals and beyond. That error has been ...

With Selection Sunday dawning, many fans are wondering: Which teams will make the 2026 men's NCAA tournament? We've been tracking how each team on the "bubble" of the bracket has been trending using a ...

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The 2026 Major League Baseball season is upon us. With help from MLB.com's beat writers, here's how each team's lineup and rotation figure to stack up come Opening Day. Jump to: AL East | AL Central | ...