{"id":8761,"date":"2011-05-20T06:16:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2011-05-20T06:16:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:16:54","slug":"what-we-need-is-more-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8761","title":{"rendered":"What We Need is More Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestsportsfans.com\/2011\/05\/in-honor-of-dirk-points-per-miss\/\">In honor of Dirk: \u2018Points Per Miss\u2019 and his spot among the NBA\u2019s all-time greats<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sportsguy33\/status\/70700473321132032\">Bill Simmons tweeted<\/a>: \u201c<em>48 points, 3 missed shots total (FG + FT). We need a stat like \u2018points per miss\u2019 to see if that\u2019s a record for a 40+ point game<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nAnd as I went to bed last night, Simmons\u2019 tweet had me thinking. Just how useful of a stat would PPM be? So I decided to get up this morning and investigate it a little further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like it, because it&#8217;s a measure of offensive <em>efficiency<\/em>.  Raw statistics, such as <em>points scored<\/em> don&#8217;t differentiate between good shooting and poor shooting, incorporates points scored or squandered on the free-throw line, and normalizes, to some extent, the increased risk and reward of three-point shots for which <em>shooting percentage<\/em> fails to account.  Efficient shooting leaves more opportunities for teammates, which the author recognizes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Points per game is an oft-cited stat, but it provides little in the way of efficiency. A player could score 40 points per game and lead the league, but if he just does it because he chucks up half of his team\u2019s shots, his team probably is not very good or balanced on offense. Another player who scores only 25 points per game but who is highly efficient at turning shooting opportunities into points is maximizing his own scoring chances while, theoretically, not wasting his team\u2019s scoring opportunities shooting lower percentage shots (by comparison) than what his teammates could get<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Dirk: \u2018Points Per Miss\u2019 and his spot among the NBA\u2019s all-time greats As Bill Simmons tweeted: \u201c48 points, 3 missed shots total (FG + FT). We need a stat like \u2018points per miss\u2019 to see if that\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8761\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}