Tribute to Leon Powe, Eddie House and Bill Walker

[Jammer]

Eddie House ranked 71 !
Leon Powe ranked 73 !! (finally meets minute requirement to be ranked)
21 year old Bill Walker has a positive NET PER !!!

On Monday/Tuesday of this week, there was a long thread on NET PER.
One of the things that I pointed out was that each Celtic ranks higher
on a NET PER basis than straight PER.

NET PER subtracts the PER of the man you guarding, without accounting for switches.

Anyway, the 82games.com rankings require 35% of Total Team Minutes to be ranked.
Only 203 NBA players are ranked, which is an average of 6.8 players per team.
Of those 203, only 106 players have positive NET PERs

The Celtics are the only NBA team with
9 players with positive NET PERs,
6 of whom meet the minutes requirement to be ranked.

This is a very tough stat to be positive.

Anyway, in tribute to Leon, Eddie, JR and Billy;
I make this post, and list the top 12 Celtics, as well.

NET PER ***** Player ***************** Total Minutes ********* NBA NET PER Rank
+32.5 ********* J. R. Giddens *************** 7
+09.8 ********* Kevin Garnett ********** 1705 ************************* 10
+07.6 ********* Ray Allen **************** 2378 ************************* 18
+06.3 ********* Paul Pierce ************** 2454 ************************* 30
+06.2 ********* Rajon Rondo ************ 2090 ************************* 31 (Age 23)
+04.4 ********* Tony Allen **************** 762
+02.4 ********* Eddie House ******* 1123 ********************* 71
+02.4 ********* Leon Powe ********* 1114 ********************* 73
+00.6 ********* Bill Walker ************ 88 (Age 21)

-02.5 ********* Kendrick Perkins ******* 1677 ************************* 157
-05.0 ********* Gabe Pruitt ************** 319 (Age 23)
-07.0 ********* Glen Davis ************** 1164 ************************* 196 (Age 23)



I don't think there is enough appreciation for the outstanding
job Eddie, Leon and young Billy are doing.

[Bleeding Green]

You need a NET PER thread where you can keep track of this in one handy thread that everyone will ignore.

I'm kidding, but NET PER is a pretty useless stat.

[Jammer]

... NET PER is a pretty useless stat.

You're entitled to your opinion.

I find it very revealing.

And the Celtics depth is impressive.

That two of their best players, KG and Tony,
have been out for an extended period is
draining on the rest of the team,
and a tribute to the team's resilience.

Anyway, out of 435 or so NBA players,
the Celtics, as a team, are very impressive
in their achievements as a team and their individual performances as well.

There is no other stat that recognizes the individual excellence
of so many Celtic players.

And that, my friend, is a clear reason why it is not useless.

[hocje]

where is Mikki Moore between all the Rank?

he played great tonight

[OBisHalJordan]

I'm kidding, but NET PER is a pretty useless stat.

seriously. nothing like dismembering a complex and poorly understood set of relations into a few instrumental values, aggregating them into stats and pretending it means something.

[Jammer]

where is Mikki Moore between all the Rank?

he played great tonight

The stats are up to the Memphis game, not including it.

Mikki and Steph played so bad up to that point that I left them off the list, but
they were on Monday's post.

Prior to the Memphis game they were in the bottom 5% of all NBA players.
Mikki had been fouling at a ridiculous rate, not defending, and
Steph was shooting bad, thus not scoring, plus making turnovers, and getting scored on.

[Man_Up]

+32.5 ********* J. R. Giddens *************** 7

JR Giddens is a beast.