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David Lee Wins vs Losses

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Since I accuse David Lee of only having good games in Warrior’s losses I thought I would build a little box plot of his total rebounds and points scored in wins versus loses.

Turns out I was probably wrong.  Lee has pretty much the exact same rebounding average in a win as in a loss.  He has slightly more points in a loss but it is not a huge difference (about a point).  Lee is however much more consistent in losses than he is in wins, that can be seen in the more compact boxes.  Look how 10-11 rebounds takes up the entire 50-75% percentile group.  That is pretty damn consistent.  Lee is more likely to have a good rebounding game in a Warriors win (or the Warriors tend to win when Lee has a higher rebounding game) which makes sense.

Nothing earth-shattering but there it is. Maybe I will take a look at some of the other players over the next few days.

On a side note I like the boxplot because there is more information in it than just looking at per game averages home versus away, for example the implied consistency.

UPDATE: In the comments Mike asked for the assists version of this graph.  I don’t think you could have drawn splits that were much similar.

David Lee Assists in wins versus losses

 

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  • Anonymous

    Interesting that the range is so much wider in wins. I guess he has a fairly standard game in losses — gets his points and rebounds but in that “invisible” way that he does sometimes.

    One other thing that might be interesting to plot is his assists in wins vs losses — seems like he does a nice job moving the ball when they win, though that’s just anecdotal.

    • Kirklandj

      There you go

      • Anonymous

        huh, confirmation that anecdote != data. That’s almost a shocking result in and of itself. Thanks!

        • Kirklandj

          I was pretty surprised too. I will have to look at other players assists stats to see how much variability one might expect.