Which Rookie Signings are the most likely to Succeed?

Only a handful of rookies manage to make a significant impact every season during their first year, mainly due to the pressure that they face from the media and the hype around them. The expectations build up as people try to project their role in their teams as future prospects. The 2015 draft has brought us some interesting names. One …

Download NBA 2016-2017 Schedule

Once the NBA schedule has been released, you can download NBA league schedule and team schedules in exportable to Excel format to build your own analysis. 2016-17 NBA schedule has been released on 11th August, at 5:45 PM. Our NBA schedule analysis is also up. NBA 2016-17 regular season schedule is on its way. Last season, the schedule came out …

2015-2016 NBA Schedule Visualization

This season, the NBA has made significant changes to NBA schedule such as reduction of the four-games-in-five-nights and back-to-back games. Here are the impacts of this scheduling adjustments in a big picture: * Brooklyn, starting its 9 game road trip (longer than any team in the NBA) on February 23, 2016, and not returning to Barclays Center until March 13, …

Does Carmelo Anthony Shoot Too Much?

This is a guest post by Vincent La and Anirudh Jayanti who are undergraduate students at Dartmouth College. They studied on calculating the “skill curve” for players and tried to find out the optimal shot allocation among a certain five-man unit. In the end, for the Knicks’ sake, it gives you an idea whether Carmelo Anthony should shoot more or …

2015 NBA Playoffs Referee Stats

NBA referee assignments posted on NBA.com at 9:00 AM ET each game day. Mouse over referee names for photos. Last updated through games completed on June 16, 2015. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. 2015 NBA PLAYOFFS REFEREE STATS Rank Referee Type Games Officiated Home Team Win% Home Team Pts Diff. Tot. …

2015 NBA Playoffs Player Stats

Learn more about player evaluation metrics and formulas. To qualify: a player must have played at least 1 game and 5 minutes per game. Last updated through games completed on June 16, 2015. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. 2015 PLAYOFFS PLAYER STATS Rank PLAYER TEAM POS AGE GP MPG MIN% USG% …

2015 NBA Playoffs Power Rankings Chart

The following chart visualizes the offensive and defensive ratings for teams in the 2015 NBA Playoffs. Good teams show up in the upper right quadrant and poor teams in the lower left quadrant. Teams with good defense and poor offense are in the upper left quadrant. Teams with good offense and poor defense are in the lower right quadrant.

2015 NBA Playoffs Advanced Stats

Learn more about the team evaluation metrics and formulas used in this data table. Mouse over teams to take a quick look at offensive and defensive 4 factors. 4 factors help identify an NBA team’s strengths and weaknesses. Last updated through games completed on June 16, 2015. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it …

2014-2015 NBA Regular Season Referee Stats

NBA referee assignments posted on NBA.com at 9:00 AM ET each game day. Mouse over referee names for photos. Last updated through games completed on April 15, 2015. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. 2014-2015 NBA REGULAR SEASON REFEREE STATS Rank Referee Type Games Officiated Home Team Win% Home Team Pts Diff. …

2014-2015 NBA Regular Season Player Stats

Last updated through games completed on April 15, 2015. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. 2014-2015 NBA REGULAR SEASON PLAYER STATS Rank PLAYER TEAM POS AGE GP MPG MIN% USG% TOr FTA FT% 2PA 2P% 3PA 3P% TS% PPG RPG TRB% APG AST% SPG BPG VI A.J. Price Cle PG 28 11 …

2014-2015 NBA Regular Season Rest Days Stats

Last updated through games completed on April 15, 2015. In the table below, raw efficiency numbers are adjusted to account for opponent strength and game location (road/home) in an effort to single out the rest days impact more precisely. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. Mouseover column headers for descriptions. Team 4IN5-B2B …

2014-2015 NBA Regular Season Power Rankings Chart

The following chart visualizes the offensive and defensive ratings. {tab=APRIL} Good teams show up in the upper right quadrant and poor teams in the lower left quadrant. Teams with good defense and poor offense are in the upper left quadrant. Teams with good offense and poor defense are in the lower right quadrant. {tab=MARCH} Good teams show up in the …

2014-2015 NBA Regular Season Advanced Stats

Learn more about the team evaluation metrics and formulas used in this data table. Mouse over teams to take a quick look at offensive and defensive 4 factors. 4 factors help identify an NBA team’s strengths and weaknesses. Last updated through games completed on April 15, 2015. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it …

2014-2015 NBA Schedule Rest Days Analysis

Download NBA schedule in excel and build your own analysis! Take X, as the day with a game played and take O, as the off day. NO REST: 4IN5-B2B : 4th game in 5 days w/ playing on the last 2 consecutive nights. X+X+O+[X+X] 3IN4-B2B : 3rd game in 4 days w/ playing on the last 2 consecutive nights. X+O+[X+X] …

2014-2015 NBA Schedule Visualization

With the new season begins, NBA 2014-2015 schedule is visualized as a tradition at NBAstuffer. Here’s the 2014-2015 schedule in big picture. Clippers Fans! Despite the 8-game road trip before the all-star, don’t forget: Your team has been granted 9 consecutive home games between 25th December and 11th January! In contrary, The Spurs will be missed by the fans in …

Download NBA 2015-2016 Schedule

NBA 2015-2016 schedule came out on August 12, 2015. As usual on NBAstuffer, check out the team-by-team schedule analysis with sortable rest days (including back-to-back’s). And also don’t miss our NBA schedule visualization including team-by-team road trips & homestands analysis Download NBA schedule in excel format to build your own analysis

Download NBA 2014-2015 Schedule

NBA 2014-2015 schedule has been released on 13th August, at 6p.m. ET. Download NBA 2014-2015 regular season league schedule in Excel As it’s been released, as usual, NBAstuffer got the new schedule analyzed in terms of various rest days and make all schedules available for download in excel format.

Scoring Contribution Percentage

A long time NBAstuffer reader Damon Smith has studied on a new metric called “Scoring Contribution Percentage”, which is derived from True Shooting % and adjusted for extra possessions created by offensive rebounds, steals and blocked shots and for possessions lost from turnovers. Not only predicting the scoring differential, Scoring Contribution % can be applied at evaluating individual offensive efficiency …

2014 NBA Playoffs Referee Stats

NBA referee assignments posted on NBA.com at 9:00 AM ET each game day. Mouse over referee names for photos. Last updated through games completed on June 15, 2014. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. 2014 NBA PLAYOFFS REFEREE STATS Rank Referee Type Games Officiated Home Team Win% Home Team Pts Diff. Tot. …

2014 NBA Playoffs Player Stats

Last updated through games completed on June 15, 2014. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. 2014 PLAYOFFS PLAYER STATS Rank PLAYER TEAM POS AGE GP MPG MIN% USG% TOr FTA FT% 2PA 2P% 3PA 3P% TS% PPG RPG TRB% APG AST% SPG BPG VI Steven Adams Okc C 20 18 18.2 36.9 …

2014 NBA Playoffs Power Rankings Chart

The following chart visualizes the offensive and defensive ratings for teams in the 2014 NBA Playoffs. Good teams show up in the upper right quadrant and poor teams in the lower left quadrant. Teams with good defense and poor offense are in the upper left quadrant. Teams with good offense and poor defense are in the lower right quadrant.

2014 NBA Playoffs Advanced Stats

Learn more about the team evaluation metrics and formulas used in this data table. Mouse over teams to take a quick look at offensive and defensive 4 factors. 4 factors help identify an NBA team’s strengths and weaknesses. Last updated through games completed on June 15, 2014. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it …

2013-2014 NBA Regular Season Referee Stats

NBA referee assignments posted on NBA.com at 9:00 AM ET each game day. Mouse over referee names for photos. Last updated through games completed on April 16, 2014. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. 2013-2014 NBA REGULAR SEASON REFEREE STATS Rank Referee Type Games Officiated Home Team Win% Home Team Pts Diff. …

2013-2014 NBA Regular Season Player Stats

Learn more about player evaluation metrics and formulas. To qualify: a player must have played at least 1 game and 5 minutes per game. Last updated through games completed on April 16, 2014. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. 2013-2014 NBA REGULAR SEASON PLAYER STATS Rank PLAYER TEAM POS AGE GP MPG …

2013-2014 NBA Regular Season Rest Days Stats

Last updated through games completed on April 16, 2014. In the table below, raw efficiency numbers are adjusted to account for opponent strength and game location (road/home) in an effort to single out the rest days impact more precisely. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. Mouseover column headers for descriptions. Team 4IN5-B2B …

2013-2014 NBA Regular Season Power Rankings Chart

The following chart visualizes the offensive and defensive ratings. {tab=APRIL} {tab=MARCH} {tab=FEBRUARY} {tab=JANUARY} {tab=DECEMBER} {tab=NOVEMBER} Good teams show up in the upper right quadrant and poor teams in the lower left quadrant. Teams with good defense and poor offense are in the upper left quadrant. Teams with good offense and poor defense are in the lower right quadrant. {/tabs}

2013-2014 NBA Regular Season Advanced Stats

Learn more about the team evaluation metrics and formulas used in this data table. Mouse over teams to take a quick look at offensive and defensive 4 factors. 4 factors help identify an NBA team’s strengths and weaknesses. Last updated through games completed on April 16, 2014. Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it …

2013-2014 NBA Schedule Visualization

I used to make these charts in the past. You can question how timely it is to post it right now but it’s a matter of me finding just some extra time. I hope it still makes sense going into the halfway mark of the season. Comments to @nbastuffer are welcomed! View infographic in full width

2013-2014 NBA Schedule Rest Days Analysis

Download NBA schedule in excel and build your own analysis! Take X, as the day with a game played and take O, as the off day. NO REST: 4IN5-B2B : 4th game in 5 days w/ playing on the last 2 consecutive nights. X+X+O+[X+X] 3IN4-B2B : 3rd game in 4 days w/ playing on the last 2 consecutive nights. X+O+[X+X] …

Download NBA 2013-2014 Schedule

UPDATE: The schedule has been released! Rest Days Analysis All schedules available for downloading in excel format. The NBA 2013-2014 Regular Season Schedule is set to get released on August 6, 2013 at 6 pm. Once it’s been released, as usual, NBAstuffer will get the schedule analyzed in terms of various rest days and make all schedules available for downloading …