Bensational wrote:Audi wrote:Bensational wrote:
One stat which I’ve always thought was lacking was a ‘consistency stat’. As in, how much a player’s game to game performance fluctuates over or under their average, and over how many games. I’ve tried to figure out a way to calculate it before but could never crack it. I feel like that would be interesting to see.
Definitely doable - you'd just have to determine what categories are considered within the realm of 'consistency'. Or you could go category by category. Bar chart the individual stats per game with the season or career average as a line running across. Voila.
Yeah, a few years ago I set up a spreadsheet which measured each game’s fluctuation from the average, which gave me a + or - result. But then I never knew what to do with that number. Obviously if you add them all up you get 0 again since it all points back to the average anyway. Then I wondered if there was any value in giving compound value to ‘streaks’ of positive of negative games. I just wanted to try boil it down to one simple number. But maybe it needs to be a visual graph?
Yeah. It really wouldn't be difficult to do and I'm sure there are nerds in NBA stat departments that do track it, but the information isn't readily available to us. It's just variance and standard deviation, which is pretty basic stuff in statistics.
Edit: This is a link to show you how to do it:
http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-deviation.html