Comments on: 2010 Team USA Advanced Stats (Thru 8/30)

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:34:31 +0000

#6 - No SPM because I didn't have "league" totals (I would need the other countries' stats as well). My design of the spreadsheet I use for SPM is so atrocious that I would have to go through 10 steps just to disentangle the formulae from needing league pace... which I realize is pathetic, but is also my mea culpa.

#7 - We have the same data for the Redeem Team here:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?page_id=6904

By: Dwight Howard

Dwight Howard — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:52:15 +0000

Amazing! I'd love to see this data for the redeem team.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:10:45 +0000

SPM?

By: ball pen

ball pen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:39:59 +0000

#3- i would chalk that up to Drtg being a shaky metric for evaluating defense.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:52:30 +0000

Love's R/40 is 4.6 less than the entire opposing teams' put together (31.3).

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:48:50 +0000

Interesting that the much-maligned Kevin Love is the leader in D Rating. Would you chalk it up to small sample size?

By: B.M.

B.M. — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:39:27 +0000

As a pacer fan, these numbers indicate what I've believed for 2 years. Granger is a good guy and a nice complementary option, but he's overrated and its a bad sign when he's scoring more than 20 ppg for your team.

By: Panic

Panic — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:55:51 +0000

I have advanced stats for the entire tourney so far (not including exhibitions). All from box scores though, no play-by-play data. Yi leads the tournament in PER (39.3). Tops on USA are Love (36.1), Durant (34.6), and Gay (31.5). Since it's early, some players have insanely high ORtg. Juan Gutierrez (ARG) is at 210 in 23 minutes. Aleksandar Rasic (SRB) is at 196, but in an extremely impressive 76 minutes. Tops on USA are Gay (138), Billups (122), and Durant (117). Hamed Haddadi (32.5) and Luis Scola (32.3) lead the tournament in Usg. Love (27.6) and Durant (26.6) lead the USA, no other Americans over 20. I have Love with a 35.6 RebR, which I thought was a mistake but is consistent with your numbers above. No one else in the tournament is higher than 26.1. Put it all together, and Love has only played 31 minutes total, but given his production and Odom's (9.9 PER) and Chandler's (2.54 PER), he should be playing that many minutes per game. If we lose this tournament, it's Krzyzewski's doing, on many levels.