Post by ANK1990 on Mar 13, 2015 23:26:50 GMT -6
I took a look at how scoring broke down by position in terms of volume and efficiency. At first, I tried to do with the entire league, but the tankers pretty much ruined the data. So instead, I only looked at games where 2 eventual playoff teams went head to head in the 3013 Regular Season. This took care of the issues with tankers and gives a pretty cool look at how players perform in competitive games.
First chart shows performance by position for everyone. Just to give a general idea of how each position group performs in games between 2 Playoff teams.
Keep in mind, the Points column in all of the following charts is points per 48 minutes.
Next, I took a look at each position individually, further breaking things down by team. I thought these charts were really cool.
Point Guards:
SG:
Small Forward:
Power Forward:
Center:
Overall, I thought the above was very interesting and an interesting way to evaluate how teams perform offensively.
One of my biggest takeaways is that backups actually matter. If your bench guys are coming in and scoring like garbage, the aggregate performance can take a large hit, even if they aren't playing very many minutes. Gary Bossert was a good example of that for the Pacers. Byron Scott single handedly dragged the Pacers SG spot to mediocrity while only playing 14 mpg.
Would you guys be interested if I did basically the same thing but for defensive performance?
First chart shows performance by position for everyone. Just to give a general idea of how each position group performs in games between 2 Playoff teams.
Keep in mind, the Points column in all of the following charts is points per 48 minutes.
Next, I took a look at each position individually, further breaking things down by team. I thought these charts were really cool.
Point Guards:
- David Thompson is the GOAT
- Steve Nash sitting out half the year hurt my Suns pretty bad.
- Clippers woof
SG:
- Pee Wee and Shakur both lit it up at SG
- Dantley is an absolute baller. His numbers were off the charts
- SG is a high efficiency position
Small Forward:
- Alexis Gardner was the best scoring SF in the league.
- Duc's tandem of Kimble and Henry shot a lot, but weren't too efficient
- Bankz' SF were complete garbage. Kobe was the only one who played respectably at SF
Power Forward:
- Greg Oden was impressive
- Cliff Robinson was not
- Look at the huge gap in points from the very top to very bottom
Center:
- Dump's Centers with the worst showing of the entire list. Kevin Willis needs to stop shooting.
- Dick Furry and Al Jeff land Buster at the top.
- Again, look at the huge gap in points scored from the top to the bottom.
Overall, I thought the above was very interesting and an interesting way to evaluate how teams perform offensively.
One of my biggest takeaways is that backups actually matter. If your bench guys are coming in and scoring like garbage, the aggregate performance can take a large hit, even if they aren't playing very many minutes. Gary Bossert was a good example of that for the Pacers. Byron Scott single handedly dragged the Pacers SG spot to mediocrity while only playing 14 mpg.
Would you guys be interested if I did basically the same thing but for defensive performance?
