Comments on: Team W-L Record in Games as a Leading Scorer

By: Knick with the Knack

Knick with the Knack — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:18:27 +0000

Well, this leads to the obligatory relative performance question: Compare these W/L records to the W/L when they aren't the leadimg scorer, to see when raising their game truly improved their team. Ditto. Better would be to weigh the non-high-scorer W% by number of games the player led in scoring each season, so that all the games Player X had as a rookie on a crappy team don't overwhelm the games five years later when he was the best player on a great team.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:46:40 +0000

I was looking at the list, and found a few who have a very low percentage of games played in which they were the leading scorer. The list th

Alton Lister, Manute Bol, Mark Eaton [who had none in career], Brad Davis, adam keefe, Joe Wolfe, Jon koncak, Greg Foster ........ Sense a theme in these ?

Also, I was surprised at the low amount of games for norm nixon and world b. free, despite that they both averaged over 15ppg for their career].

For current players, ronnie Turiaf [over 300 games played] has only 1.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:22:30 +0000

Not very surprised to see Larry Bird at the top of the list in winning percentage.

By: AHL

AHL — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:18:47 +0000

Well, this leads to the obligatory relative performance question: Compare these W/L records to the W/L when they aren't the leadimg scorer, to see when raising their game truly improved their team.

When you have time to re-run the tables. =)

By: Jason J

Jason J — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:27:53 +0000

It would be interesting to see what the win%s were for their teams when they didn't lead in scoring as a comparison.

By: DocRostov

DocRostov — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:33:47 +0000

This is an interesting little exercise. One thing that popped out to me was Malone's insane number of games, there -- 1067 games as a leading scorer? That's ridiculous. I realize he was the main scoring option on the Jazz for essentially his entire career, but DANG.

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:14:39 +0000

I hate to say it, but I can't. I really don't have time to re-run all of the tables and put that in right now. Probably one of the first times I've ever turned down a commenter request like this.

By: Garron

Garron — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:03:01 +0000

Could you also throw in there total games played? Just so we know what % of games they played they were actually the leading scorer.