Comments on: 2009 2nd Round SPM Scores

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:22:38 +0000

I agree, Detlef's been a guy on our Keltner List radar for a while -- the dude is always criminally underrated, despite some surprisingly good numbers. We'll do one for him next week.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:08:12 +0000

Okay Neil, sorry to be off-topic here but I didn't know where else to post this: I was having a conversation with some people about the best forwards throughout the 90s (naturally, guys like Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, etc, are the first to be mentioned), but an often overlooked player has come to my mind: Detlef Schrempf. Why him? He seemed to be the "predecessor" to Dirk Nowitzki during his time - a player with length at the four-spot who could also cause tricky matchup problems with his ability to stretch out the floor with the outside shot. His per-game averages don't seem too impressive, but his per 36 minutes aren't too shabby, and some of the advanced metrics seem to like him as well. I think a Keltner List is in order - I'm not saying Detlef is a Hall-of-Famer by any means, but maybe it could put his career into a more favorable context. Thanks!

By: HRA

HRA — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:05:26 +0000

Very interesting. I used a slightly simpler SPM rating systems. SPM=1.05*FG-0.45*FGA+1.345*3P+0.451*FT+0.213*FTA+0.308*ORB+0.519*DRB+0.678*AST+1.76*STL+0.857*BLK-1.34*TO-0.14*PF-0.22*MP. Below are the top rated player with a minimum of 50 MP. The ratings are for the playoffs through the yesterday's games.

PLAYER SPM/MP
LeBron James 0.377867978
C Billups 0.200967391
C Anthony 0.149950216
Dwight Howard 0.144828629
Dirk Nowitzki 0.141436548
Rajon Rondo 0.131601386
Kobe Bryant 0.120025362
Linas Kleiza 0.115075862
Deron Williams 0.101255924
Carlos Boozer 0.099817204
Chris Andersen 0.098209402
Jason Kidd 0.097305699
Kirk Hinrich 0.096557143
Tim Duncan 0.088591463
Dwyane Wade 0.084764912
Brandon Bass 0.079328125
J.R. Smith 0.07890566
Joakim Noah 0.072571956
Lamar Odom 0.070947964
Brandon Roy 0.067260504
Eddie House 0.059590517
Mikki Moore 0.059378788
A Kirilenko 0.057551471
Pau Gasol 0.057074141
Trevor Ariza 0.054395735
Jordan Farmar 0.052751553
Tony Parker 0.051309392
Yao Ming 0.048176471
Andre Iguodala 0.046687732
Kyle Korver 0.032823529
Rashard Lewis 0.02655595
J O'Neal 0.025685185
Paul Pierce 0.025246403
Joel Przybilla 0.024728395
Nene Hilario 0.0230875
Shannon Brown 0.022738318
Marcin Gortat 0.021
Rafer Alston 0.017808962
S Dalembert 0.016503759
Chuck Hayes 0.015734104
Josh Smith 0.01497561
Tyrus Thomas 0.012097436
Joe Smith 0.005857143
Paul Millsap 0.00556129
Steve Blake 0.004865801
Anthony Carter 0.002203209
Ben Gordon 0.002085526
Chris Paul 0.001870647
James Posey 0.001162602
K Perkins 0.000109375

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:59:29 +0000

For a team that went 7 games, they had a significantly negative efficiency differential. Their offensive efficiency vs. L.A. was 101.0 (all teams averaged 108.6 in Round 2), and they allowed 109.1 pts/100 poss. to the Lakers, which makes for a differential of -8.13 pts/100 poss.

By: Jason J

Jason J — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:37:05 +0000

Wait a minute... how did Houston take LA to 7 games again? They only had 3 players with positive SPM, and one of them was Yao who missed half the series.

By: Zandungeo

Zandungeo — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:12:18 +0000

Wow Lebron is owning these playoffs.