Original PORPAG post is here. The basics: As a refresher, this stat is an attempt to measure the marginal points per game a player contributes to his team on offense above what a “replacement-level” player would provide. Major caveats: (1) Basketball is a team, not an individual, sport and (2) this stat tells you nothing [...]
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Final Conference-Only Points Over Replacement Per Adjusted Game (PORPAG)
Posted in stats analysis, tagged evan turner, kalin lucas, offensive ratings on March 9, 2009 | Comments Off
More PORPAG!
Posted in stats analysis, tagged goran suton, kalin lucas, offensive ratings, raymar morgan, travis walton on January 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Following up on yesterday’s attempt to invent a statistic, here are the current Points Over Replacement Per Adjusted Game (PORPAG) numbers for the MSU players listed at Kenpom: Player Min% OffRtg %Poss PORPAG Lucas 76.0 121.3 23.0 3.90 Morgan 67.3 112.7 25.6 2.88 Allen 49.8 108.9 24.0 1.70 Suton 35.5 123.6 17.4 1.47 Summers 50.2 [...]
Can't stop scatterplotting
Posted in stats analysis, tagged big ten, offensive ratings on January 16, 2009 | 11 Comments »
With the offensive rating/usage rate scatterplot phenomenon rapidly spreading through the Big Ten blogsophere (OK, one other guy decided to make one), I was inspired to produced another scatterplot of my own. Here it is: The scatterplot includes the top two scorers on every Big Ten team (except for IU’s Devan Dumes, whose offensive rating [...]
Scatterplot time
Posted in stats analysis, tagged korie lucious, offensive ratings on January 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to do this for a couple weeks: A review of the methodology: Offensive rating is basically an attempt to use all the individual basketball stats currently available to measure a player’s efficiency in using possessions to score points. The rating uses the same scale as team offensive efficiency (points scored per 100 [...]
Drew Neitzel: Present and Past
Posted in links, msu, stats analysis, tagged drew neitzel, offensive ratings, travis walton on July 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Timberwolves’ summer league team played its first game last night. Neitzel scored 10 points on 4-5 FG shooting (all 2-pointers), including 2-2 on 3-pointers, in 14 minutes. On the downside, he had zero assists and turned the ball over two times. Someone named Pooh Jeter, from St. Vincent College the University of Portland, was [...]
Bonus scatter plots: Wisconsin and Purdue
Posted in stats analysis, tagged offensive ratings, purdue, wisconsin on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
To get a better sense how individual offensive ratings and usage percentages fit together, here are scatter plots for the top two teams in the Big Ten this past season. Note that the vertical axis is recalibrated based on the approximate average team offensive efficiency figure for both teams (108.9 for Wisconsin; 105.0 for Purdue). [...]
Putting "Basketball on Paper" to work
Posted in stats analysis, tagged offensive ratings on July 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Having read through all 350+ pages of “Basketball on Paper,” I thought I should try to put a little of what I learned to use. Let’s take a look at MSU’s individual offensive rating and usage rates. Both these stats are available at kenpom.com. Offensive rating is basically an attempt to use all the individual [...]
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