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First Half Advanced Stats

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I can’t claim to be an expert on the advanced stats, but here are the team breakdowns from a few sources.

First, Hollinger’s Player Efficiency Ratings –The first three names in the chart are no surprise, but interesting that Brandan Wright comes in as the 4th most efficient player. Must discount defense heavily.

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Second, we have Win Shares via Basketball-Reference.com — Monta has the most shares and is second to Curry in WS/48, and B. Wright again makes a surprising appearance near the top (with the other Wright far down in the table). In all, this metric gives very similar rankings to PER above.

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In contrast, Wins Produced gives us some very different rankings. Dorell Wright leads the way in wins produced, with Monta second though his WP48 is well below the league average of .100. Biedrins has the highest WP48, with Curry second and David Lee as the only other above-average player on the team. Of course, this system also accounts for only 15 wins for the Warriors, so either it’s under-valuing the team or they’ve just gotten lucky:

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Wins Produced places extra value on rebounds and penalizes for high usage rates, which must explain Monta’s low ranking in the system (Kevin Love has the most wins produced in the league, followed by Chris Paul, LeBron James, and Dwight Howard). Still, I’m kinda surprised that he’s below average as he rebounds decently for a guard, does well in steals, and has a solid true shooting percentage of 55.7%. Usage must trump all, I guess.

So take all this for what it’s worth. Food for thought, at the very least. Any other advanced metrics that I should be looking at?

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  • Jake

    The advanced stats still like Biedrins quite a bit, although they almost all favor centers and to a lesser extent PFs. Of the top 100 individual games of the first half of the season Biedrins is the only Warrior to show up on the list with the 16th! best game so far of 2010-2011. It was 11/26/10 game against Memphis. His line looked like:

    Nov 26 @ MEM L 111 – 116 42 13 – 15 0 – 0 2 – 4 7 14 21 2 2 1 3 3 28

    So this was his 28 point 21 rebound game and certainly was the “Biedrins of old” that we expected to see more than once a year. 13-15 was damn efficient too.