Comments on: Layups: Interview on The Pulse Network

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:52:10 +0000

One way you could frame the usg/ast% situation with LeBron and Wade would be to look at touches, and what % were devoted to each type of action (mouse over headers for descriptions):

	Wade								James
Year	Age	ORtg	%Pos	T/Min	%P	%S	%F	%T	Age	ORtg	%Pos	T/Min	%P	%S	%F	%T
2004	22	101.2	25.6	1.39	56	28	10	7	19	99.2	28.0	1.55	56	31	8	6
2005	23	109.3	31.6	1.80	57	25	12	6	20	113.5	29.5	1.75	58	29	9	4
2006	24	115.4	32.8	1.82	56	27	13	5	21	115.4	33.1	1.74	53	31	11	4
2007	25	112.4	35.0	2.08	58	25	12	6	22	111.6	30.5	1.66	53	31	11	5
2008	26	103.4	33.6	1.91	57	26	11	6	23	116.3	33.6	1.93	56	29	11	4
2009	27	115.2	36.5	2.06	56	28	11	4	24	121.7	34.2	2.02	58	27	11	4
2010	28	113.3	35.1	1.98	56	28	11	5	25	120.9	34.0	2.13	62	25	10	4

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:39:31 +0000

You're right, sorry about that, on the main player pages we use a different definition of "usage", while I was thinking of the Oliver definition (which does include assists).

By: AHL

AHL — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:20:47 +0000

Hang on, You said the USG% was finishing offensive plays, whether it's shots, pass, or turnovers, but in the Glossary there's no use of assists in the definition. Is there a better stat that we can look at to say "I think LeBron passing to Wade/Bosh for the finish and Wade passing to LeBron/Bosh for the finish will really create synergy instead of fighting to ballhog" aside from looking at individual ORtgs and AST% in 2011? Looking at their previous USG% seems like it assumes these guys will be lots iso like they were with their old teams.

By: Jason J

Jason J — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:01:46 +0000

Well done, Neil.