Errntknght
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I normally use the SportVU rim protection stats for front court players and for them many attempts against is a good thing because one can interpret it as the guy being active in defending the rim. (Of course the best rim protector is the one that opponents fear and refuse to shoot near him. The stats do not indicate there is too much of the latter effect because the Hibberts, Chandlers and Duncans do get challenged quite a lot.)
This not about the frontcourt players however. For perimeter players, shots against at the rim are clearly not a good thing and made shots at the rim are worse. The SportVU data lists makes against per game but makes against per 36 or 48 is a far more useful stat for comparing players (guys that play few mpg will look better in per game stats, while for stats like rebounds low minute players look worse.)
I applied this (per36) to the Suns guards with this rather surprising result:
player OppFGA@rim OppFGM@rim
Bledsoe 2.2 1.39
Dragic 1.9 0.98
Thomas 1.1 0.64
Green 2.0 0.81
Goodwin and Ennis have too few minutes for the stat to mean much of anything but here they are:
Goodwin 2.3 0.96
Ennis .5 0.00
Small forwards - both PJ and Marcus play some at PF so the interpretation isn't so clear:
Marcus 3.6 1.95
Tucker 3.3 1.70
TJ Warren has very scanty minutes, too
Warren 2.7 2.09
How do our PGs stack up against other PGs - among the 59 who have 500+ minutes: Thomas 15th, Dragic 39th, Bledsoe 53rd
Some noteable PGs
Ty Lawson 3rd 0.8 0.38
Chris Paul 14th 1.2 0.61
Derrick Rose 18th 1.6 0.67
Damian Lillard 22nd 1.2 0.70
Tony Parker 28th 1.0 0.79
Westbrook 36th 1.3 0.92
Kyrie Irving 52nd 1.8 1.26
This list validates the stat to me... Lawson, Paul and Irving I have some sense of their defense and I'd put then in that order. The others I'd put in between Paul and Irving though I don't have enough sense of their game to order them.
I normally use the SportVU rim protection stats for front court players and for them many attempts against is a good thing because one can interpret it as the guy being active in defending the rim. (Of course the best rim protector is the one that opponents fear and refuse to shoot near him. The stats do not indicate there is too much of the latter effect because the Hibberts, Chandlers and Duncans do get challenged quite a lot.)
This not about the frontcourt players however. For perimeter players, shots against at the rim are clearly not a good thing and made shots at the rim are worse. The SportVU data lists makes against per game but makes against per 36 or 48 is a far more useful stat for comparing players (guys that play few mpg will look better in per game stats, while for stats like rebounds low minute players look worse.)
I applied this (per36) to the Suns guards with this rather surprising result:
player OppFGA@rim OppFGM@rim
Bledsoe 2.2 1.39
Dragic 1.9 0.98
Thomas 1.1 0.64
Green 2.0 0.81
Goodwin and Ennis have too few minutes for the stat to mean much of anything but here they are:
Goodwin 2.3 0.96
Ennis .5 0.00
Small forwards - both PJ and Marcus play some at PF so the interpretation isn't so clear:
Marcus 3.6 1.95
Tucker 3.3 1.70
TJ Warren has very scanty minutes, too
Warren 2.7 2.09
How do our PGs stack up against other PGs - among the 59 who have 500+ minutes: Thomas 15th, Dragic 39th, Bledsoe 53rd
Some noteable PGs
Ty Lawson 3rd 0.8 0.38
Chris Paul 14th 1.2 0.61
Derrick Rose 18th 1.6 0.67
Damian Lillard 22nd 1.2 0.70
Tony Parker 28th 1.0 0.79
Westbrook 36th 1.3 0.92
Kyrie Irving 52nd 1.8 1.26
This list validates the stat to me... Lawson, Paul and Irving I have some sense of their defense and I'd put then in that order. The others I'd put in between Paul and Irving though I don't have enough sense of their game to order them.
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