AirP. wrote:michaelm wrote:vvoland wrote:
That part also seems problematic. i like advanced stats as much as the next guy but they have a sharply declining utility the more advanced they get. basic metrics (either per 48 or 100 poss) really don't need much context when looking at what 5 man units do and doesn't require advanced calculus to "extract what an individual player is doing on the court."
I have a healthy respect for quants and such. At some point, there's the game itself and, often, it seems like it is no longer as important as some dorp/vorp/borp number some dude came up with.
Not meant as a critique of what you posted, all data points are welcome on a message board.
Sure, my view as well, I am sure they are useful but I am not prepared to spend a significant part of my life re-learning advanced mathematics to more fully understand them, and suspect many of them can’t really be validated. They shouldn’t be an end in themselves imo either.
- Calculated ORTG and DRTG
try to extract a player's impact when on the court vs what the group does when that player was on the court.
- Basketball-Reference does it for you in the box scores of each game and under the per100 stats.
I've been using it for a long time now as a nice easy to digest numbers of how a player helps or hurts a team when on the court, especially on individual games where +/- doesn't give a real overview of a player that game.
That's the part where you and I have a difference of opinion. I think that part is particularly tough in a single game sample size, which is what you're seeming to reference in your 2nd point. Over a full season, sure, it'll have a bit more meaning but, again, I don' t think it's valuable without the understanding of what 5 man unit the majority of those numbers come from.
Just as one example,
in 24-25, buddy hield had 106.2 pts per 100 possessions of(cleaning the glass version) without steph on the court (1714 possessions, excluding garbage time).
with Steph? 124.8 (2015 possessions).
His total for the season was 116.2, in 3729 possessions. That overall number is not nothing but the lineup data, even the two man pairings, imho, is far more telling.
According to basketball-reference, buddy's ortg for the year was 108 (not sure if that's the number you're using). I'm really not sure what to make of that number, just to be honest.
PS. Buddy should have played like 35+ mins per game last season and, while I was already thinking he should start, how does kerr look at something like this and not start him:
https://cleaningtheglass.com/stats/team/10/lineups?on=1608#tab-four_factorsHis 13 most used lineups are, at worst +0.0 and, at best, in the +50s..