With six regular season games left for the Heat and the standings so close in the fight for home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs, it's easy to get caught up in the now.

But where does this Heat team rank in the 28 years of the franchise as it prepares for the playoffs?

Here are some interesting numbers I found using basketball-reference.com's franchise encyclopedia:

> When it comes to piling up victories, this is already tied for the 12th-winningest team in franchise history. The furthest this Heat team can climb is 50 regular season wins, which would make it only the 10th team in club history to accomplish that feat (the 2011-12 NBA title team won only 46 games in a shortened season).

> Of the 12 previous teams to win at least 44 games, three won the NBA title, two lost in the Finals, two lost in the Eastern Conference Finals, one lost in the Eastern Conference semis and four were bounced in the first round of the playoffs.

> Only one Heat team which won fewer than 44 games -- the 2003-04 Heat -- advanced past the first round. Dwyane Wade and Udonis Haslem were rookies on that team.

> When it comes to pace, this Heat team (93.6) has the seventh-best in franchise history -- better than all three championship teams -- and the highest since the 1993-94 team led by coach Kevin Loughery that finished 42-40 and lost to the Hawks 3-2 in the first round.

> This Heat team ranks 15th out of 28 in both offensive (105.6) and defensive rating (104.3). Relative to the league, this Heat team ranks 13th in defense (-2.0) and 15th on offense (-0.7). So, basically, it's middle of the pack in terms of offense and defense.

> When it comes to shooting percentage, this Heat team (.469) is tied with the 2011-12 title team for sixth-best in franchise history. Of the five Heat teams that shot better, two won the NBA title (2012-13, .496) and (2005-06, .478), two lost in the NBA Finals (2013-14, .501) and (2010-11, .481), and one (2004-05, .486) lost in the Conference Finals.

> The Heat's .337 three-point shooting percentage is the sixth-worst in franchise history. And that's after the Heat led the NBA in three-point shooting (102-of-251, .406) for the month of March.

> This is the second-best rebounding team in franchise history (44.1), only the 1993-94 Heat (44.4) led by Rony Seikaly were better. Overall, this year's team is the best defensive rebounding team in Heat history (34.4).

> The 6.6 blocks per game this Heat team is averaging is the best in franchise history and only the third in club history to average at least six blocks per game. The others (1999-00 and 1998-99) were led by Alonzo Mourning.

> The 98.5 points the Heat is giving up on defense are the ninth-most in franchise history and the opposing field goal percentage (.442) ranks 16th out of 28.

> The 7.6 three-pointers allowed per game by this Heat team are tied for the third-most allowed in club history. Of course, it's a new era for three-point shooting and two more recent teams 2013-14 (8.5) and 2014-15 (8.1) gave up more threes and at a higher shooting percentage than this team.

> Individually, center Hassan Whiteside is having a Top 10 statistical season in several categories in Heat history. Rookie Josh Richardson is also up there for his three-point shooting.

-- Whiteside's NBA's best (94.4) defensive rating -- a full-point better than the Spurs' Kawhi Leonard (95.4) -- would be the second-best mark in franchise history behind only Mourning's 92.9 rating which netted him Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1998-99.

-- Whiteside's current 4.9 defensive win shares rank 10th all-time.

-- Whiteside's 3.7 blocks per game are tied with Mourning for the second-best in franchise history and his 11.8 rebounds per game would tie Seikaly for the highest marks in franchise history.

-- Whiteside's 251 blocks rank second all-time in Heat history behind Mourning's club record of 294 in 1999-2000.

-- Assuming he doesn't start throwing up bricks left and right, Whiteside's .614 field goal percentage is going to trump the club record of .601 set by Shaquille O'Neal in 2004-05.

-- Whiteside's 579 defense rebounds rank sixth all-time in franchise history and he's within reach to pass Seikaly's team record of 627 defensive rebounds. Whiteside trails Seikaly by only 48 defensive rebounds with six to go.

-- Whiteside's 792 total rebounds rank fourth-most in a season in Heat history behind Brian Grant's 837 in 2002-03 and Seikaly's 846 in 1992-93 and team-high 934 in 1991-92.

-- Richardson's .484 three-point shooting percentage this season ranks third all-time behind Jon Sundvold (.522) in 1988-89 and Jason Kapono (.514) 2006-07.

-- Among Heat rookie three-point shooters, Richardson ranks fifth all-time in makes behind Rasual Butler (50), Khalid Reeves (67), Daequan Cook (79) and Mario Chalmers (114).

-- Wade's current 31.9 usage percentage would be the eighth-highest in franchise history behind six other seasons by Wade and one by LeBron James (32.0) in 2011-12.