Sports Reference Blog

Playoff Series Historical Odds Added to Basketball Reference

Posted by Alex Bonilla on June 12, 2019

Basketball Reference recently made an addition of preseason championship odds and win total over/unders that you can read about in a previous blog entry. The site has now also added playoff series odds where available back to 1988, which can be viewed on Basketball Reference's Playoff Series History index. The odds are taken from before the start of the series.

This postseason, you can see the Golden State Warriors were -15000 favorites over the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round, the heaviest favorites in a playoff series since the 2016 San Antonio Spurs' first round matchup with the Memphis Grizzlies. As for the 2017 Warriors, they were the second-biggest favorites in an NBA Finals, only trailing the 2001 Los Angeles Lakers, who were -2000 favorites over the Philadelphia 76ers.

Thanks to SportsOddsHistory.com for providing us with the historical data for this addition. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us through our feedback form.

Related posts:

  1. Best NBA Scoring Duos in One Game (Mailbag)
  2. Yearly Schedule-Adjusted Offensive and Defensive Ratings
  3. Every Time an NBA Team Came Back From a 3-1 Deficit (and What It Means for the Warriors)
  4. The 15 Biggest Playoff Upsets in NBA History
  5. Major Improvements to NBA Finals Box Scores

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 at 10:04 am and is filed under Announcement, Basketball-Reference.com, Data, History, Playoffs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Comments are closed.