Career Teammates' True Shooting Added, to get an idea of who had the better teammates, overall.
For this exercise, I also ran, for defense, all of their respective teammates' defensive box plus minus.
I removed MJ and Lebron's numbers from all data.
All numbers are regular season:
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Year Lebron Teammates True Shooting Addded
2004 -380
2005 -83
2006 -101
2007 -335
2008 -442
2009 49
2010 163
2011 269
2012 46
2013 424
2014 351
2015 220
2016 97
2017 215
2018 192
2019 -160
2020 78
2021 -102
Sum 501
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Year Jordan Teammates True Shooting Added
1985 12
1986 -33
1987 -297
1988 -300
1989 -83
1990 43
1991 115
1992 200
1993 -148
1995 -6
1996 27
1997 38
1998 -159
2002 -25
2003 3
Sum -613
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Year Lebron Teammates DBPM
2004 -10
2005 -43
2006 8
2007 7
2008 -16
2009 2
2010 -15
2011 2
2012 4
2013 -15
2014 -4
2015 -8
2016 -2
2017 -1
2018 -20
2019 4
2020 0
2021 11
Sum -96
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Year Jordan Teammates DBPM
1985 -10
1986 -22
1987 2
1988 -2
1989 -12
1990 -19
1991 -2
1992 -1
1993 0
1995 7
1996 4
1997 9
1998 13
2002 -6
2003 -13
Sum -52
Unfortunately, I can only find regular season numbers for right now for True Shooting Added. Maybe someone can help me out with the postseason? I'll run playoffs impact metrics next for defense and offense, where I can find it.
Thanks so much in advance.
What does this prove, if anything? Would you use different metrics? Why, if so?