Post by eric on Jan 13, 2015 16:30:02 GMT -6
The hip thing is to do points per possession rather than per game, because teams that play at a higher pace (more possessions per game) will seem better on offense and worse on defense than they really are. If anyone remembers how people talked about the Nash Suns, they're a classic case. They were often bottom in the league in points per game, but in points per possessions they were actually average.
Offensive and Defensive Ratings do points per 100 possessions because thousandths are for nerds. Our stats don't split out into offensive and defensive rebounds, but I just did ratios of total rebounds and that seemed to work pretty well. Here are the teams ranks in [points per game, Offensive Rating, points allowed per game, Defensive Rating] through Sim 11, and I will update this thread when the regular season is finished.
Converting from per game to per possession usually doesn't change the net rankings, so if team A is +7 net points per game and team B is +6, team A will usually still be better in net points per possession. So what's the point of all this? If Mikhail Prokhorov gets his way, soon we'll be voting on DPOY, and it would be helpful to know which teams are actually best at defense rather than which ones just plod through games and artificially deflate their points allowed. (If he doesn't get his way, someone's going to end up with a grizzly bear's head in their bed or whatever it is the Red Mafiya does.)
And for novelty our league's average pace is 114.0, much higher than any league average pace in recorded history and higher than any individual team's pace too. Because turnovers and offensive rebounds weren't recorded prior to 1974 it's impossible to say for sure, but the league peak was probably around 1961 at around 130 possessions per 48 minutes.
Offensive and Defensive Ratings do points per 100 possessions because thousandths are for nerds. Our stats don't split out into offensive and defensive rebounds, but I just did ratios of total rebounds and that seemed to work pretty well. Here are the teams ranks in [points per game, Offensive Rating, points allowed per game, Defensive Rating] through Sim 11, and I will update this thread when the regular season is finished.
PPG Ortg oPPG Drtg Team
29 29 29 29 76ers
6 12 22 17 Bucks
2 9 11 8 Bullets
7 5 3 1 Bulls
5 1 9 10 Cavaliers
11 10 15 16 Celtics
17 17 10 9 Clippers
20 20 8 14 Grizzlies
12 8 5 4 Hawks
27 24 25 26 Heat
13 13 19 15 Hornets
9 11 20 19 Jazz
22 25 23 22 Kings
15 6 2 5 Knicks
25 26 28 27 Lakers
3 3 6 3 Magic
4 4 7 7 Mavericks
26 27 24 25 Nets
28 28 27 28 Nuggets
23 22 12 24 Pacers
24 23 13 20 Pistons
21 21 1 11 Raptors
8 7 4 2 Rockets
10 16 16 6 Suns
14 15 26 23 SuperSonics
18 18 14 13 Thunder
16 14 18 18 Timberwolves
1 2 17 12 Trailblazers
19 19 21 21 WarriorsConverting from per game to per possession usually doesn't change the net rankings, so if team A is +7 net points per game and team B is +6, team A will usually still be better in net points per possession. So what's the point of all this? If Mikhail Prokhorov gets his way, soon we'll be voting on DPOY, and it would be helpful to know which teams are actually best at defense rather than which ones just plod through games and artificially deflate their points allowed. (If he doesn't get his way, someone's going to end up with a grizzly bear's head in their bed or whatever it is the Red Mafiya does.)
And for novelty our league's average pace is 114.0, much higher than any league average pace in recorded history and higher than any individual team's pace too. Because turnovers and offensive rebounds weren't recorded prior to 1974 it's impossible to say for sure, but the league peak was probably around 1961 at around 130 possessions per 48 minutes.
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