The EuroCup standings table - its the structure that makes one of the most competitive international basketball tournaments in Europe tick. Clubs from top European leagues such as Spain, Italy, Turkey, France and Israel and a few others fight it out all season long with the table deciding who makes it to the knockout stages, and who gets knocked out.
Regulars like Valencia Basket, Virtus Bologna, Gran Canaria and Hapoel Tel Aviv tend to be near the top of the standing and more often than not go all the way deep into the competition.
When the season starts the EuroCup season begins with a group stage where teams get thrown into groups and play each other in a round robin format. The standings table is decided by:
As you can imagine a lot of teams finish with similar records so point differential often breaks deadlocks and decides group standings.
The top teams in the standings qualify for the playoff phase where things start to get serious. The higher seeded teams get a fair few advantages, such as:
All of this is reflected in the standings table which has to show both team quality and consistency across the season.
Looking at historical match data collected by OddsRun, the final score patterns that come out on top include some pretty familiar looking score ranges.
Most common score ranges are:
All of these scorelines fit in with the EuroCup's overall scoring profile too:
So most games finish with a total between 165 and 175 points and bookmakers set totals markets close to those numbers.
Looking at multiple seasons, the EuroCup standings and historical results reveal several interesting patterns:
For bettors and basketball fans, understanding the EuroCup standings, historical results and common score patterns is a big help in working out who will be the teams to watch, and more importantly what's going on for upcoming games and betting markets.