How exactly to percentages work in H2H Yahoo?

ironicteeshirt · Post #1 » by **ironicteeshirt** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 5:17 pm

Hey all, it's my first year of doing fantasy ball so I thought I'd join this forum.

Anyways, I'm currently in a Head-to-Head yahoo league (where each team receives a point/win for the categories that they won) and was wondering precisely how percentages (e.g. FG%, FT%, 3PT%) work.

For example, let's say I have a hypothetical team of two players. If PlayerA were to shoot 4 out of 5 free throws, and PlayerB were to shoot 0 out of 1 free throws, what would be my team's overall FT%?

Would it be .400 or .667?

jimmy keys · Post #2 » by **jimmy keys** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:10 pm

Is this really a question ?

Ladies and gentlemen the American education system....

Seriously dude did you stop taking math after grade 1? Can you add and/or divide?

If you are over the age of 7 you should be really embarrassed. I mean really. Wow. REALLY?!?!?!?!?!? How are percentages calculated? Hahahahaha. Really?

Player A shoots 5 shots makes 4, Player B shoots 1 shot and misses it. Combined they made 4 out 6 shots.

You do the math.

ironicteeshirt · Post #3 » by **ironicteeshirt** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:40 pm

Thanks for the response.

I do understand that in an actual game with players on the SAME TEAM the answer to the above would be 4/6.

However, the way it could possibly work in fantasy basketball is not immediately obvious, hence my question. It's really just a matter of how the game designers decide to handle it. I wouldn't be surprised if there did exist some other fantasy bball site that actually averages each players averages with equal weighting.

mattyj · Post #4 » by **mattyj** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:42 pm

Im trying to work out how you even got .400 as a possibility????

ironicteeshirt · Post #5 » by **ironicteeshirt** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 8:10 pm

mattyj wrote:Im trying to work out how you even got .400 as a possibility????

The average of the two players' percentages.

So average of .000 and .800 = .400

TheToothFairy · Post #6 » by **TheToothFairy** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:00 pm

jimmy keys wrote:Is this really a question ?

Ladies and gentlemen the American education system....

Seriously dude did you stop taking math after grade 1? Can you add and/or divide?

If you are over the age of 7 you should be really embarrassed. I mean really. Wow. REALLY?!?!?!?!?!? How are percentages calculated? Hahahahaha. Really?

Player A shoots 5 shots makes 4, Player B shoots 1 shot and misses it. Combined they made 4 out 6 shots.

You do the math.

You don't have to be that rude about it

Mobby · Post #7 » by **Mobby** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:32 am

lol jimmy keys is such a -- no name-calling. - StopIt

I had the same question when I started fantasy last year.

Bank Shot · Post #8 » by **Bank Shot** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:37 am

Ya no need for rudeness. Basically everyone has that question when they start.

TheToothFairy · Post #9 » by **TheToothFairy** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 5:09 pm

ironicteeshirt wrote:Hey all, it's my first year of doing fantasy ball so I thought I'd join this forum.

Anyways, I'm currently in a Head-to-Head yahoo league (where each team receives a point/win for the categories that they won) and was wondering precisely how percentages (e.g. FG%, FT%, 3PT%) work.

For example, let's say I have a hypothetical team of two players. If PlayerA were to shoot 4 out of 5 free throws, and PlayerB were to shoot 0 out of 1 free throws, what would be my team's overall FT%?

Would it be .400 or .667?

4 out of 5 FT's ='s 80%
0 out of 1 FT's ='s 0%
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4 out of 6Ft's ='s .667%

4 dived by 6 ='s .667%

Post #10 » by **niQ** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 5:50 pm

Basically it is the "total number of shots made" over "total number of shots taken" by all your players. So I wouldn't worry about calculating it yourself.

However, this could work to your advantage (or disadvantage) with players who take a large volume of FG's or FT's (ie: Durant).

Big men usually have LOW FT% but not ALL of them take a high volume of FTs. So if you have guards that have a high % and take a bunch of FTs per game.. it wouldn't hurt your overall FT% too much.