Stats Corner

[batsmasher]

Have a stat that you're eager to share? Any basketball related stats are welcome discussion points.

Heck. Who said it need to be a basketball related stat? Maybe something just blew your mind. We wanna hear it. Post em all!

Link dump/ recommendations (got any to add?)

NBA's official stats website

Basketball Reference's Play Index - find any basketball stat under the sun.

Nylon Calculus - need I say more?

NBAWowy - Advanced lineup fun

Sports reference, college stats

More NCAA stats, with shot charts too.

r/DataIsBeautiful - definitely not basketball related, but heaps of eye candy here.

Tweeter peeple

Matt Moore - Hardwood Paroxysm, posts good tidbits throughout the season

Seth Partnow - so good at his job he got hired by the Bucks

Benjamin Morris - 538 NBA (and other sports) guy

Trey Causey - Daryl Morey follows him so he must be smart

Chris Herring - another 538 NBA guy

Neil Paine - and another

Shot Analytics - shot charts and fun stuff, but have been AWOL for a few months

[batsmasher]

I just finished watching BK's highlight video and saw a few people talking about Bender's kick out to BK in the corner.

So I checked NBA.com's stats and it's pretty bleak. We're 4th last in catch and shoot FGA per game, and we're last in EFG% from those shots.

How do we fix that? For one, I think we are in dire need of a post presence, which is why I'm not against trading for a guy like Vucevic. Secondly (I know I say this a lot), gimme some plays for our shooters to catch and shoot! Most of our offense initiation for our shooters starts with the ball in their hands.

[LacosteM]

20% of Chriss's total FGA's were blocked.

When Brandon Knight is on the court with Barbosa and Bender (95 mins), his TS% is 60.2%.

Tyson Chandler is 4th in the league in screen assists.

Suns second most played lineup consisting of Bledsoe/Booker/Chriss/Len/Warren is posting a dreadful NetRtg of -15.3 .

Jared Dudley is shooting 47.5% on c&s 3's.

Len is shooting 29% outside 5+ feet.

TJ is 7th in league in steals.

13 of 16 PJ Tucker's 3FGA were open&wide open catch&shoot 3's. He's 1-13 on them.

Edit: Add NbaWowy to your list.

[batsmasher]

Suns second most played lineup consisting of Bledsoe/Booker/Chriss/Len/Warren is posting a dreadful NetRtg of -15.3 .

This makes me die on the inside the most because I know Earl is completely oblivious to the fact.

Then again, are any coaches in the NBA that responsive to advanced stats? Malone couldn't care less about Jokic. Orlando's whole team is death according to advanced stats. Boogie is still being forced to play some 4 etc etc.

[kennydorglas]

Suns second most played lineup consisting of Bledsoe/Booker/Chriss/Len/Warren is posting a dreadful NetRtg of -15.3 .

This makes me die on the inside the most because I know Earl is completely oblivious to the fact.

Then again, are any coaches in the NBA that responsive to advanced stats? Malone couldn't care less about Jokic. Orlando's whole team is death according to advanced stats. Boogie is still being forced to play some 4 etc etc.

I guess only Spoelstra and maybe Fitzdale (same coaching tree).

[MathiasPW]

It's also a matter of sample size. Ours is still to small to be considered definitive, and coaches will tend to take longer to adjust because they have other excuses to make up for the bad stat.

Random Stat: 100% of all basketball players who drink water eventually die.

[NTB]

It's also a matter of sample size. Ours is still to small to be considered definitive, and coaches will tend to take longer to adjust because they have other excuses to make up for the bad stat.

Random Stat: 100% of all basketball players who drink water eventually die.

I thought it was because they breathe.

[bwgood77]

Vorped is good http://vorped.com/1-nba/2015-2016/team/850/phoenix-suns/

Also, a link to our previous links to various pages for information on where to find things, whether it be who owns pick, the CBA, basketball history, statistical research, etc. viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1333734

[kennydorglas]

First RPM is out

http://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM

Duds +1.08
Warren +0.59
Chandler +0.37
Bled +0.02
Len -0.62
Tucker -1.17
Bender -1.44
Book -1.9
Barbosa -2.08
Chriss -2.86
Knight -4.16
Ulis -4.24

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[batsmasher]

Having a look at lineups with PJ in them. Our lineups with him playing with our bench are among the best.

Our lineups with him playing with starters are our worst.

Source

[LacosteM]

RPM Update:

Dudley +1.95
Warren +0.26
Chandler +0.08
Bledsoe -0.54
Len -0.95
Tucker -1.03
Barbosa -1.56
Bender -1.57
Booker -1.67
Ullis -2.47
Chriss -3.55 (dead last on pf column)
Knight -3.60

[bwgood77]

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Also, if you'd like to keep track of b-refs MVP Award Tracker

http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/mvp.cgi

[gaspar]

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That's really strange considering lower left quadrant would be good and Miami is so far ahead of everyone (Whiteside obviously for rim protection) and we are right there with the Clips. I understand the fg% at rim considering we have two 7 foot centers who are decent at blocking, and then Bledsoe gets occasional blocks, as well as Chriss in his limited minutes. But it's not like we have great perimeter defense so the 3 pt thing is kind of strange.

[batsmasher]

Was looking for fantasy purposes but Greg Monroe's on/off NetRtg this season is whack:

On: 9.5
Off: -4.5

Jason Kidd bruh.

[bwgood77]

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[LacosteM]

Out of 27 games he played so far, Knight had a negative +/- in 21 of them.