1999 Houston Comets Stats

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Record: 26-6, 1st in WNBA Western Conference

Coach: Van Chancellor (26-6)

Executive: Carroll Dawson

PTS/G: 74.0 (3rd of 12) Opp PTS/G: 64.7 (1st of 12)

Pace: 69.7 (9th of 12)

Off Rtg: 105.8 (1st of 12) Def Rtg: 92.5 (1st of 12) Net Rtg: +13.3 (1st of 12)

Expected W-L: 25-7

Arena: Compaq Center

Playoffs:
Won WNBA Western Conference Finals (2-0) over Los Angeles Sparks
Won WNBA Finals (2-1) over New York Liberty

WNBA Champions
Western Conference Champions

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date	Exp	College
9	Janeth Arcain	G	5-11	147	April 11, 1969	2
14	Cynthia Cooper	G	5-10	150	April 14, 1963	2	USC
34	Sonja Henning	G	5-7	143	October 4, 1969	R	Stanford
23	Tammy Jackson	F-C	6-2	190	December 3, 1962	2	Florida
40	Monica Lamb	C	6-5	206	October 11, 1964	1	Houston, USC
24	Mila Nikolich	F	6-3	185	April 7, 1971	R
21	Jennifer Rizzotti	G	5-6	146	May 15, 1974	R	UConn
0	Nyree Roberts	C	6-3	209	March 10, 1976	1	Old Dominion
22	Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	6-0	145	March 25, 1971	2	Texas Tech
7	Tina Thompson	F	6-2	178	February 10, 1975	2	USC
15	Polina Tzekova	C	6-4	189	April 30, 1968	R
13	Amaya Valdemoro	F	6-1		August 18, 1976	1
52	Kara Wolters	C	6-7	227	August 15, 1975	R	UConn

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

Team and Opponent Stats Table
Type	G	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Team	32	6425	841	1912	.440	176	547	.322	665	1365	.487	509	622	.818	303	682	985	499	272	139	452	586	2367
Team/G		200.8	26.3	59.8	.440	5.5	17.1	.322	20.8	42.7	.487	15.9	19.4	.818	9.5	21.3	30.8	15.6	8.5	4.3	14.1	18.3	74.0
Lg Rank		9	4	6	1	2	2	6	7	11	1	5	8	1	9	7	7	7	4	2	2	2	3
Year/Year		-0.8%	-0.8%	-1.6%	+0.4	-6.8%	-1.7%	-1.6	+1.0%	-1.6%	+1.2	-8.1%	-9.8%	+1.6	-4.0%	+1.4%	-0.3%	+9.1%	-23.4%	+59.3%	-2.8%	+7.6%	-2.9%
Opponent	32	6425	763	1954	.390	125	442	.283	638	1512	.422	419	566	.740	350	621	971	459	216	78	491	633	2070
Opp/G		200.8	23.8	61.1	.390	3.9	13.8	.283	19.9	47.3	.422	13.1	17.7	.740	10.9	19.4	30.3	14.3	6.8	2.4	15.3	19.8	64.7
Lg Rank		9	3	8	1	4	7	2	3	8	1	2	2	6	11	1	2	2	2	1	6	5	1
Year/Year			-2.1%	+1.7%	-1.4	+5.4%	+12.2%	-1.5	-3.4%	-1.0%	-1.0	+15.9%	+12.7%	+1.7	+0.9%	-7.6%	-4.7%	-4.7%	-1.4%	-29.4%	-18.2%	-6.6%	+1.7%

Per Game

Regular Season

Playoffs

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Cynthia Cooper	36	31	31	35.5	6.8	14.8	.463	1.9	5.6	.335	5.0	9.2	.540	6.6	7.4	.891	0.5	2.3	2.8	5.2	1.4	0.4	3.4	2.0	22.1
2	Sheryl Swoopes	28	32	32	34.4	7.1	15.3	.462	1.0	3.1	.337	6.0	12.2	.494	3.1	3.8	.820	1.5	4.8	6.3	4.0	2.4	1.4	2.6	1.8	18.3
3	Tina Thompson	24	32	32	33.6	4.4	10.6	.419	1.2	3.5	.351	3.2	7.1	.452	2.1	2.7	.782	2.1	4.3	6.4	0.9	1.0	1.0	2.3	3.0	12.2
4	Sonja Henning	29	32	32	24.9	1.6	3.7	.444	0.4	1.3	.317	1.2	2.4	.513	0.3	0.6	.611	0.7	1.8	2.5	2.3	1.1	0.2	0.9	1.9	4.0
5	Polina Tzekova	31	32	32	24.3	2.4	5.5	.429	0.3	1.4	.250	2.0	4.2	.489	1.0	1.3	.775	1.7	3.4	5.1	1.0	0.4	0.6	1.6	3.7	6.1
6	Janeth Arcain	30	32	1	23.0	2.2	5.1	.433	0.3	1.4	.250	1.9	3.8	.500	1.1	1.3	.829	1.0	1.8	2.8	1.2	0.9	0.1	1.2	2.0	5.8
7	Tammy Jackson	36	28	0	13.6	0.9	2.1	.414	0.0	0.0	1.000	0.8	2.0	.404	0.9	1.3	.714	1.6	1.6	3.3	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.9	2.7	2.6
8	Monica Lamb	34	3	0	12.0	1.3	3.3	.400	0.0	0.0		1.3	3.3	.400	1.7	2.0	.833	1.0	1.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.3	2.0	4.3
9	Jennifer Rizzotti	25	25	0	9.7	0.6	1.6	.350	0.3	1.0	.269	0.3	0.6	.500	0.3	0.5	.583	0.1	1.0	1.1	0.8	0.7	0.0	0.6	0.8	1.7
10	Amaya Valdemoro	22	17	0	5.4	0.8	2.1	.371	0.1	0.3	.400	0.6	1.8	.367	0.7	0.9	.750	0.2	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.6	0.0	0.7	0.9	2.4
11	Nyree Roberts	23	4	0	4.3	0.0	0.3	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.3	.000	0.3	0.5	.500	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.3
12	Mila Nikolich	28	7	0	4.1	0.6	1.6	.364	0.1	0.6	.250	0.4	1.0	.429	0.1	0.3	.500	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.4	1.4
13	Kara Wolters	23	10	0	4.1	0.3	1.3	.231	0.0	0.0		0.3	1.3	.231	1.0	1.2	.833	0.5	0.7	1.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.3	1.1	1.6

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Cynthia Cooper	36	6	6	36.7	5.5	14.2	.388	1.8	5.7	.324	3.7	8.5	.431	7.5	8.7	.865	0.8	3.5	4.3	6.8	1.5	1.0	3.3	2.3	20.3
2	Sheryl Swoopes	28	6	6	36.0	4.8	13.5	.358	0.7	2.2	.308	4.2	11.3	.368	4.3	4.7	.929	1.2	2.5	3.7	1.2	2.3	0.5	2.0	1.5	14.7
3	Tina Thompson	24	6	6	34.7	3.5	9.5	.368	1.5	4.0	.375	2.0	5.5	.364	2.7	3.5	.762	1.0	4.0	5.0	0.7	0.8	1.2	2.2	4.2	11.2
4	Janeth Arcain	30	6	0	26.0	2.2	4.8	.448	0.3	1.5	.222	1.8	3.3	.550	1.7	2.7	.625	0.7	2.3	3.0	1.0	1.0	0.2	0.3	1.2	6.3
5	Sonja Henning	29	6	6	22.7	1.3	3.8	.348	0.2	1.5	.111	1.2	2.3	.500	0.3	1.0	.333	1.2	1.8	3.0	1.8	1.2	0.2	1.2	0.8	3.2
6	Polina Tzekova	31	6	6	21.7	1.7	4.2	.400	0.3	0.5	.667	1.3	3.7	.364	1.7	2.0	.833	1.2	2.7	3.8	0.3	0.7	0.5	0.8	2.8	5.3
7	Tammy Jackson	36	6	0	19.2	2.2	4.0	.542	0.0	0.0		2.2	4.0	.542	1.8	2.7	.688	3.0	4.0	7.0	0.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	2.5	6.2
8	Mila Nikolich	28	2	0	2.5	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		1.0	1.0	1.000	0.0	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	1.0
9	Jennifer Rizzotti	25	2	0	2.5	0.0	0.5	.000	0.0	0.5	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
10	Kara Wolters	23	2	0	2.5	0.5	0.5	1.000	0.0	0.0		0.5	0.5	1.000	1.0	1.0	1.000	0.5	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	2.0
11	Amaya Valdemoro	22	2	0	2.0	0.5	0.5	1.000	0.5	0.5	1.000	0.0	0.0		1.0	1.0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.5	2.5

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Totals

Regular Season

Playoffs

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Cynthia Cooper	36	31	31	1101	212	458	.463	58	173	.335	154	285	.540	204	229	.891	17	70	87	162	43	11	104	61	686
2	Sheryl Swoopes	28	32	32	1100	226	489	.462	33	98	.337	193	391	.494	100	122	.820	48	154	202	127	76	46	83	57	585
3	Tina Thompson	24	32	32	1074	142	339	.419	39	111	.351	103	228	.452	68	87	.782	67	139	206	28	31	31	72	95	391
4	Sonja Henning	29	32	32	798	52	117	.444	13	41	.317	39	76	.513	11	18	.611	22	58	80	74	34	7	29	60	128
5	Polina Tzekova	31	32	32	778	76	177	.429	11	44	.250	65	133	.489	31	40	.775	54	109	163	32	13	19	52	118	194
6	Janeth Arcain	30	32	1	735	71	164	.433	11	44	.250	60	120	.500	34	41	.829	32	59	91	38	30	2	39	63	187
7	Tammy Jackson	36	28	0	382	24	58	.414	1	1	1.000	23	57	.404	25	35	.714	45	46	91	7	15	20	26	75	74
8	Jennifer Rizzotti	25	25	0	242	14	40	.350	7	26	.269	7	14	.500	7	12	.583	2	25	27	19	18	1	16	21	42
9	Amaya Valdemoro	22	17	0	92	13	35	.371	2	5	.400	11	30	.367	12	16	.750	4	9	13	9	11	0	12	16	40
10	Kara Wolters	23	10	0	41	3	13	.231	0	0		3	13	.231	10	12	.833	5	7	12	2	1	0	3	11	16
11	Monica Lamb	34	3	0	36	4	10	.400	0	0		4	10	.400	5	6	.833	3	3	6	0	0	2	1	6	13
12	Mila Nikolich	28	7	0	29	4	11	.364	1	4	.250	3	7	.429	1	2	.500	3	2	5	1	0	0	3	3	10
13	Nyree Roberts	23	4	0	17	0	1	.000	0	0		0	1	.000	1	2	.500	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	1
			32		6425	841	1912	.440	176	547	.322	665	1365	.487	509	622	.818	303	682	985	499	272	139	452	586	2367

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Cynthia Cooper	36	6	6	220	33	85	.388	11	34	.324	22	51	.431	45	52	.865	5	21	26	41	9	6	20	14	122
2	Sheryl Swoopes	28	6	6	216	29	81	.358	4	13	.308	25	68	.368	26	28	.929	7	15	22	7	14	3	12	9	88
3	Tina Thompson	24	6	6	208	21	57	.368	9	24	.375	12	33	.364	16	21	.762	6	24	30	4	5	7	13	25	67
4	Janeth Arcain	30	6	0	156	13	29	.448	2	9	.222	11	20	.550	10	16	.625	4	14	18	6	6	1	2	7	38
5	Sonja Henning	29	6	6	136	8	23	.348	1	9	.111	7	14	.500	2	6	.333	7	11	18	11	7	1	7	5	19
6	Polina Tzekova	31	6	6	130	10	25	.400	2	3	.667	8	22	.364	10	12	.833	7	16	23	2	4	3	5	17	32
7	Tammy Jackson	36	6	0	115	13	24	.542	0	0		13	24	.542	11	16	.688	18	24	42	1	7	7	7	15	37
8	Mila Nikolich	28	2	0	5	0	0		0	0		0	0		2	2	1.000	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	2
9	Jennifer Rizzotti	25	2	0	5	0	1	.000	0	1	.000	0	0		0	0		0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
10	Kara Wolters	23	2	0	5	1	1	1.000	0	0		1	1	1.000	2	2	1.000	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4
11	Amaya Valdemoro	22	2	0	4	1	1	1.000	1	1	1.000	0	0		2	2	1.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	5

Advanced

Regular Season

Playoffs

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Cynthia Cooper	36	31	1101	29.5	.614	.526	.378	.500	2.1	7.9	5.2	31.9	2.2	0.8	15.7	29.3	119	96	7.7	1.5	9.2	.335
2	Sheryl Swoopes	28	32	1100	28.9	.539	.496	.200	.249	6.1	17.4	12.1	25.7	4.0	3.6	13.3	27.7	110	87	5.0	3.1	8.1	.294
3	Tina Thompson	24	32	1074	15.7	.518	.476	.327	.257	8.7	16.1	12.6	5.0	1.7	2.5	16.0	20.4	100	93	1.8	2.0	3.8	.142
4	Sonja Henning	29	32	798	11.1	.512	.500	.350	.154	3.8	9.0	6.6	15.7	2.4	0.7	18.8	9.4	108	96	1.2	1.2	2.4	.120
5	Polina Tzekova	31	32	778	10.4	.498	.460	.249	.226	9.7	17.4	13.8	7.4	1.0	2.1	21.1	15.4	95	94	0.6	1.3	1.9	.099
6	Janeth Arcain	30	32	735	11.9	.514	.466	.268	.250	6.1	10.0	8.1	9.3	2.3	0.2	17.6	14.7	101	96	1.0	1.1	2.1	.115
7	Tammy Jackson	36	28	382	10.9	.504	.422	.017	.603	16.4	15.0	15.6	3.1	2.3	4.4	26.2	12.7	97	91	0.3	0.8	1.2	.123
8	Jennifer Rizzotti	25	25	242	9.6	.464	.438	.650	.300	1.1	12.9	7.3	13.2	4.3	0.4	26.1	12.3	85	90	-0.1	0.6	0.5	.078
9	Amaya Valdemoro	22	17	92	17.2	.476	.400	.143	.457	6.0	12.2	9.3	19.1	6.9	0.0	22.2	28.6	89	85	0.0	0.3	0.3	.125
10	Kara Wolters	23	10	41	13.1	.438	.231	.000	.923	17.0	21.3	19.2	8.4	1.4	0.0	14.1	25.3	100	92	0.1	0.1	0.2	.166
11	Monica Lamb	34	3	36	14.9	.514	.400	.000	.600	11.6	10.4	10.9	0.0	0.0	4.7	7.3	18.5	114	98	0.1	0.0	0.2	.186
12	Mila Nikolich	28	7	29	7.1	.421	.409	.364	.182	14.4	8.6	11.3	6.7	0.0	0.0	20.2	25.0	82	101	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.033
13	Nyree Roberts	23	4	17	-0.3	.266	.000	.000	2.000	8.2	7.3	7.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	34.7	8.3	55	102	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.080

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Cynthia Cooper	36	6	220	28.3	.565	.453	.400	.612	3.1	11.9	7.7	48.1	2.5	2.4	15.6	30.0	115	94	1.3	0.4	1.8	.320
2	Sheryl Swoopes	28	6	216	16.8	.471	.383	.160	.346	4.4	8.6	6.6	8.0	3.9	1.2	11.4	25.2	98	93	0.3	0.4	0.7	.136
3	Tina Thompson	24	6	208	11.2	.506	.447	.421	.368	3.9	14.3	9.4	4.4	1.5	2.9	16.4	19.7	95	95	0.1	0.4	0.5	.099
4	Janeth Arcain	30	6	156	13.8	.527	.483	.310	.552	3.5	11.2	7.5	8.5	2.3	0.6	5.3	12.6	117	96	0.4	0.3	0.7	.167
5	Sonja Henning	29	6	136	9.2	.371	.370	.391	.261	7.0	10.1	8.6	16.9	3.1	0.6	21.4	12.4	83	95	-0.1	0.3	0.1	.043
6	Polina Tzekova	31	6	130	11.7	.528	.440	.120	.480	7.3	15.3	11.5	3.3	1.9	2.0	14.2	14.0	107	94	0.2	0.3	0.5	.150
7	Tammy Jackson	36	6	115	23.5	.596	.542	.000	.667	21.2	26.0	23.7	2.0	3.7	5.3	18.4	17.1	115	83	0.4	0.4	0.8	.292
8	Mila Nikolich	28	2	5	15.0	1.136				0.0	24.9	13.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	53.2	19.4	106	95	0.0	0.0	0.0	.178
9	Jennifer Rizzotti	25	2	5	4.2	.000	.000	1.000	.000	0.0	24.9	13.0	37.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.3	52	95	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.056
10	Kara Wolters	23	2	5	40.9	1.064	1.000	.000	2.000	27.1	0.0	13.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	34.7	29.7	137	107	0.1	0.0	0.1	.444
11	Amaya Valdemoro	22	2	4	51.6	1.330	1.500	1.000	2.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	34.7	37.2	130	106	0.0	0.0	0.0	.376

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