0 of 30

Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

Even though plenty of truths about the 2015-16 NBA season are now blindingly obvious, so much is still up in the air.

Will the Philadelphia 76ers manage to break into double digits in the victory column, or are they destined to go down as one of the worst teams in the history of this sport? Can the Los Angeles Lakers keep pace with their futility while trying to avoid parting with their first-round draft pick?

Will the Milwaukee Bucks and Washington Wizards figure things out after starting the campaign in such miserable fashion? Are the Dallas Mavericks for real? Can the Houston Rockets break out of the pack of teams that are competing for a playoff spot in the Western Conference?

Will the Golden State Warriors shoot their way past the hallowed mark set by the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls? If they do, can the San Antonio Spurs join them north of 70 victories?

There's no shortage of storylines to talk about when going over the projected records of each NBA squad.

It's also worth noting that we'll lean on my FATS model while making these prognostications. FATS, which stands for factor-adjusted team similarities, looks at the Four Factors for each team and compares them to every squad throughout league history, using the best matches to spit out an expected number of victories.

If you're curious about all the nuances, you can find the model explained in full here.

For each team, we're taking the FATS projection and adjusting for factors it can't account for—injuries, improvement, strength of schedule, etc.—to come up with the final prediction that appears in each slide's header.