K N U C K L E S wrote:I've been wanting somebody to calculate what today's teams' scoring average would be with previous era's 3 point scoring rates!MartyConlonJr wrote:I think in the past, it seemed like it might be unfair to players in terms of all time statistics, to lop off a shot that inflates your ppg, but if you now look at how inflated game scores are becoming, getting rid of the three point line altogether would only make final scores lower to a point that is not that dissimilar to late 90's or early 00's or so.
The lowest scoring team this year is Orlando, they score 105.6 and make 11.4 threes, so in theory would score 95.2 ppg as a team. Charlotte score 105.8 but make 14.3 threes, and would be 91.5 ppg without threes. Basically teams would be scoring somewhere between 91.5 ppg and 105 ppg which is not way less than teams were scoring a 10-15 years ago, and that is assuming they just played exactly the same way they do now, instead of taking higher percentage mid range shots or focusing on a more spread out offense, that would likely offset some of it.
In fact by doing it now, with the age of analytics and spike in scoring really just happening in the last few years, rather than doing it 10 years from now, would stop players from having career long stat inflation that is harder to roll back from.What is your formula?
My formula was simple - what if all threes were just twos? You just take the teams ppg, and minus the teams 3pt shots made per game. E.g. if they make 11.3 3 pointers per game, that is 33.9 points (3 x 11.3), and I want those considered as 2 pointers (2 x 11.3 = 22.6), so you simply minus the number of three pointers (11.3) from their ppg.
I think you are looking at something far more complex though.
