How the regular season schedule of the NBA teams in the United States is arranged

I didn't have five games. Let's play four games at most.

In general, it is arranged like this:

Take rockets, for example:

The Rockets are in the Southwest Division of the West, so they play two games against the 15th team in the East, one home and one away, for a total of 30 games.

Down in the same region as the West, the Spurs, Hornets, Mavericks, and Grizzlies played four games each, two at home and two away, for a total of 16 games.

There are also 10 teams in the West, and if you play four games against each team, it will be 40 games, and if you add 30 and 16, you will be 86 games.

If you play 3 games with each team, it is 76 games, not enough 82 games, so in order to make up 82 games, some will play 3 games and some will play 4 games.

This year, the Rockets and Lakers have played 4 games.

And with the Trail Blazers, it played 3 games.

Here's how it looks like this:

Each NBA team plays 82 games during the regular season, so each NBA team plays four games in the regular season against teams from the same small division; Meet each team in a different sub-region, but in the same major region, three or four times. Play two games against teams from different small and big divisions.

So far, most of the NBA's schedule is handmade, although it also uses some computer technology, but it is very limited, the main reason is that the whole schedule involves too many factors, and some factors are subjective, it is difficult to fully model these factors, and the current computer technology cannot solve the problem of involving so many variables. Key Considerations:

1. The arena used in the competition is not available every day. The vast majority of NBA teams rent locally owned stadiums, and in addition to NBA games, they also hold other activities.

2. The NBA's schedule should also take into account the games of other leagues. In the United States, the NBA is not the most popular sport, and this title belongs to football, so on days when there are important football games, the NBA will try to schedule as few games as possible.

3. After determining a possible home game date, there are some basic rules that the NBA's schedule will follow. For example, a team can play a maximum of one game per day, cannot play three consecutive days, cannot play two consecutive home games, can have four games in five days, but cannot have six games in eight days. Travel is also an important consideration in scheduling, with the NBA stating that teams must arrive at the city of play the day before the game, so if it's a back-to-back game, the flight distance can't exceed a certain range.

Teams want to fly as little distance as possible, so teams on the East Coast usually play at least three games when they go to the West Coast.

4. Requirements for signing contracts to broadcast caravanserai on important dates. At the same time, it is necessary to be as fair as possible to all teams.

There are two games in a season in different regions, three or four games in a season in different divisions of the same region, and the computer randomly decides which one to play three games with, and four games in a season in the same district, making up 82 regular season games.

There must be no more than six consecutive home and away games.

The NBA's regular season is played on a home-and-away basis, with 30 teams playing a total of 1,189 games during the regular season, with each team playing 82 games during the regular season. However, the number of games played by teams against each other during the regular season varies. Teams from the same league and the same division play two home and two away games, a total of 4 games; Teams from different leagues play two games against each other, one home and one away; Three or four games are played between two teams in different divisions of the same league, the number of games varies from team to team, but the total number of games guaranteed for each team in the regular season is 82.

The NBA preseason is actually a warm-up game for the NBA teams, because after the end of each season, each team has considerable changes in the lineup, in order to let the teams run in the lineup, familiar with the playing style of their respective teams, determine the lineup of each team in the new season, and also enhance the communication between players and coaches, so before the start of each season, the NBA will hold a number of preseason games, so that they can be in a better state to devote themselves to the long regular season games.

The preseason is not an official competition, so results are not counted towards the regular season.

After the NBA's 1,189 regular season games, according to the game win percentage, that is, the number of games won divided by 82, the top 8 teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences will be eliminated, and 16 teams will qualify for the playoffs.

Take the Rockets as an example, the Rockets are in the West, playing two games with the Eastern team in one season, playing two home and two away games with the opponent in the same Southwest Region, while the same West but different divisions only play two fewer games, playing three games are officially randomly drawn, and playing five games is impossible, unless it is a playoffs.

4 games in the same division are the Rockets in the Southwest Division, 3 games in the same division are the other teams in the West, and 2 games in the different divisions are the Eastern teams.

Starting in early October, NBA games are divided into three parts: preseason, regular season and playoffs.

The pre-season tournament is held in early October every year.

The regular season is a round-robin tournament between the 30 NBA teams from late October to mid-April of the following year, with each team playing 82 games and 30 teams playing a total of 1,230 games.

The playoffs refer to the games between the top eight teams in the East and the West according to the NBA league ranking rules after the NBA regular season in mid-April each year, and the final winner wins the NBA championship after the end of the NBA regular season in mid-April.

That's how it should be calculated.

One team plays two games with different divisions (east and west), 15*2=30 plays 3 games with 4 of the 10 teams in different districts of the same division, 4*3=12 plays 4 games with 6 of the 10 teams in different districts of the same division, and 6*4=24 plays 4 games with teams from the same district, 4*4=16

Just right. I think it would have been more reasonable if it had been 86 games.