SpreeS wrote:f4p wrote:SpreeS wrote:Where do you see value in these numbers if we compare
Thomas +0.3422
Curry -0.1613
or
Kobe +0.0856
Curry -0.1613
from All time PO leaders tables from RS to PS
PER Curry from 20th to 20th vs Kobe from 28th to 24th
TS Curry from 6th to 10th vs Kobe from ... to 171th
WS/48 Curry from 25th to 16th vs Kobe from 62th to 56th
BPM Curry from 12th to 8th vs from Kobe 21th to 26th
Kobe as a riser isnt close to Curry as a faller in any cut.
the first thing i see is someone asked about playoff risers so these are the numbers (well, numbers, maybe not
the numbers).
as for kobe and curry, one thing we can see in terms of effect is that kobe rises from 1.41 expected championships to 5 actual championships while curry rose from 2.65 expected championships to 4 actual championships. so it helped kobe go from winning less in the regular season to winning more in the playoffs, thus becoming a better winner who beat a better collective groups of opponents along the way.
also, i don't feel like looking it all up, but a lot of curry's numbers compared to the regular season look good because he didn't make the playoffs his first 3 years and that drags down a lot of his regular season numbers without affecting his playoff numbers. you would have to compare using the years he actually made the playoffs.
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And what a number is expected championships?
viewtopic.php?p=107407815#p107407815
basically just using the team's SRS and their playoff opponents SRS to calculate their expected championships. kobe's teams effectively won much more than their SRS would imply.
lessthanjake wrote:As an example with Kobe Bryant, it really helped in this regard that for three of his titles (and most of the years he had on a team with any chance of winning a title) he had a superstar teammate that was famous in that era for coasting in the regular season (indeed, that coasting caused substantial rifts between the two players).
so the general perception of shaq is that he coasted. i would say it might even be a little true. but looking at these resiliency numbers, shaq shows up right in the middle of the pack at +0.018. so basically neutral. in fact, if we just look at the 2000-2002 period, shaq is at -0.001, or as close to 0 as you can get (-0.083, +0.087, -0.070). in the 3 regular seasons of 2000-2002, shaq led the league in PER all 3 years (led the playoffs all 3 years), led the league in WS48 twice (led the playoffs twice), and led the league in BPM all 3 years (did not lead the playoffs in any year). so other than missing some games in 2002 and trying harder on defense in 2001 (and they would have probably won even if shaq didn't try way harder), shaq was producing like crazy in the regular seasons during their championship runs.