Tag: Team Stats

Sortable NBA Efficiency and Referee Stats Are Up!
Check out the stat pages, here and here. All stats are sortable!

Use the handy table for majorly known stats along with possession based offensive, defensive efficiency. It also includes efficiency differentials and a new consistency metric based on each team's game-by-game efficiency differential.  For those of you who are not familiar with these metrics, take a look at "Analytics 101"s team evaluation metrics. Besides, you can find the road / home splits that makes sense in case you are just not looking for season's aggregated stats. More to come soon.

In the referee stats page, NBA referees are seperated into two types: main referees and and the rest of officiating crew. Point totals scored in the game, home teams' W/L percentages and point differentials are some of the stuff which I think will we very helpful to evaluate referees.

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Insight - Best Sources

 

Check out the new "Insight" section where you can find links from the quality sources around the web. I'm open to have new additions here, so let me know which sites you would like to see added.

 

 

 

 

 

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Big Cactus Effect, What Changed in Phoenix?

 

It's the same "old" story. They said he couldn't run, they said the Suns couldn't even make it to playoffs with him.

 

Here is briefly what changed after Shaq has come to Phoenix:

 

EFFICIENCY
PACE	OFFENSE	DEFENSE
×	√	×

 

He slightly (0.29 more points per 100 possessions) helps Suns' offense but the team has allowed 1.67 more points per 100 possessions. That points out worse defense since he has arrived.

 

 

SHOOTING
eFG%	OPP eFG%
√	×

 

The Suns are shooting with a better effective field goal percentage while opposing teams are also shooting better to Suns' rim. 

 

REBOUNDING
OR%	DR%
√	√

 

This is what Shaq significantly changed. Better offensive (2.52% increase) and defensive (3.19% increase) rebounding percentage!

 

FREE THROWS
FTM/FGA	OPP FTM/FGA
√	×

 

The Suns are getting to foul line more and also allowing opponents to take more free throws.

 

TURNOVERS
TO/POSS	OPP TO/POSS
×	×

 

Turnovers per possession (1.7% more) are hurting! Opponent turnovers forced (-1.67%) has also decreased.

 

 

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Power Rankings Chart

 

Basically; if the team is located at:

 

• right side of the black vertical line: The team has better offense than the NBA league average
• left side of the black vertical line: The team has worse offense than the NBA league average
• upper side of the black horizontal line: The team has better defense than the NBA league average
• lower side of the black horizontal line: The team has worse defense than the NBA league average

 

 

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