Post by eric on May 29, 2018 18:18:45 GMT
The great Bill James applied the concept of harmonic mean to base-ball by inventing the power speed number, which is a way of quantifying which players hit a lot of home runs and acquire a lot of stolen bases. By multiplying the two values and dividing by their sum, players who do 50 of one and none of the other get a 0 while players who do 20 of each get a 20.
We can apply the same principle to basketball by looking at points, rebounds, and assists per game. Let us consider the two thousand four hundred and oneDalmatians players to play at least one thousand minutes in the regular season:
As it happens, the top ten are the only players with 30+. These names shouldn't come as huge shocks to anyone. Maurice Stokes is the fella who famously suffered a career ending and massively debilitating injury that left him paralyzed for life, but before that he put up 16 17 and 5 per game over three years.
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Now let's look at the one thousand five hundred and fifty five players to play at least one hundred minutes in the post season:
Again, the top ten are the only players with 30+, and again shouldn't come as huge shocks since they're almost entirely the same players. The only exception is Stokes, whose aforementioned career end occurred after his first playoff game. His replacement is Steve Francis, whose sole playoff appearance consisted of a valiant 19/8/8 holding off a Lakers squad of four future Hall of Famers. Four, you understand this number? For five games the Franchise made this gold andpurple "Forum blue" army pay so dearly that they lost all taste for battle and were defeated soon after.
Looking for more battle hardened postseason success leadership, the Rockets then traded Steve for Tracy McGrady.
Let's look at the other nine fellows by how much their number changed going into the postseason:
Bill, LeBron, Magic. Not a bad top three. Pretty good.
I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I don't get why Oscar gets so little of the flack Wilt gets for choking in the playoffs. Oscar has fewer rings (2 to 1), fewer Finals MVPs (1 to 0 and Wilt probably would have gotten another in 1967), just as bad of a statistical drop off, I don't get it.
I don't get it.
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And let's have some fun with the bottom of the list. In the regular season every player with 1000 MP has recorded at least one point, rebound, and assist, so nobody puts up a zero, but Yinka Dare really gave it a shot: 233 points, 281 rebounds, and 4 assists over 110 games gives him a power speed number of .04.
In the playoffs five players put up ohfers in dimes: Todd Fuller, Zeljko Rebraca, Danny Fortson, Emeka Okafor, and with a comical 17 points per game average Andre Drummond. To be fair he only averaged one turnover a game, but quite frankly if you'll pardon my French to also be fair pass the d@rn ball.
The lowest pPSN without hitting zero was a barn burner, but Steve Novak's .0321 couldn't quite catch DJ Mbenga's .0320. Fun fact: Novak's only assist in 189 minutes played was to DeMar DeRozan on a twenty footer to cut the Nets' lead to twenty. The Raptors who had been up 3-2 went on to lose the series, but this first taste of playoff disappointment in 2014 hardened the Raptors' mental strength and in future pffffffft
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We can apply the same principle to basketball by looking at points, rebounds, and assists per game. Let us consider the two thousand four hundred and one
psn name
53 Wilt Chamberlain
43 Oscar Robertson
41 Magic Johnson
39 Maurice Stokes
38 Larry Bird
35 Elgin Baylor
35 Bill Russell
35 LeBron James
33 Russell Westbrook
33 Ben SimmonsAs it happens, the top ten are the only players with 30+. These names shouldn't come as huge shocks to anyone. Maurice Stokes is the fella who famously suffered a career ending and massively debilitating injury that left him paralyzed for life, but before that he put up 16 17 and 5 per game over three years.
.
Now let's look at the one thousand five hundred and fifty five players to play at least one hundred minutes in the post season:
psn name
47 Magic Johnson
45 Wilt Chamberlain
41 Bill Russell
40 LeBron James
39 Larry Bird
35 Ben Simmons
35 Oscar Robertson
35 Steve Francis
34 Russell Westbrook
32 Elgin BaylorAgain, the top ten are the only players with 30+, and again shouldn't come as huge shocks since they're almost entirely the same players. The only exception is Stokes, whose aforementioned career end occurred after his first playoff game. His replacement is Steve Francis, whose sole playoff appearance consisted of a valiant 19/8/8 holding off a Lakers squad of four future Hall of Famers. Four, you understand this number? For five games the Franchise made this gold and
Looking for more battle hardened postseason success leadership, the Rockets then traded Steve for Tracy McGrady.
Let's look at the other nine fellows by how much their number changed going into the postseason:
delpsn name
7 Bill Russell
5 LeBron James
5 Magic Johnson
3 Ben Simmons
2 Larry Bird
1 Russell Westbrook
-3 Elgin Baylor
-8 Wilt Chamberlain
-8 Oscar RobertsonBill, LeBron, Magic. Not a bad top three. Pretty good.
I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I don't get why Oscar gets so little of the flack Wilt gets for choking in the playoffs. Oscar has fewer rings (2 to 1), fewer Finals MVPs (1 to 0 and Wilt probably would have gotten another in 1967), just as bad of a statistical drop off, I don't get it.
I don't get it.
.
.
And let's have some fun with the bottom of the list. In the regular season every player with 1000 MP has recorded at least one point, rebound, and assist, so nobody puts up a zero, but Yinka Dare really gave it a shot: 233 points, 281 rebounds, and 4 assists over 110 games gives him a power speed number of .04.
In the playoffs five players put up ohfers in dimes: Todd Fuller, Zeljko Rebraca, Danny Fortson, Emeka Okafor, and with a comical 17 points per game average Andre Drummond. To be fair he only averaged one turnover a game, but quite frankly if you'll pardon my French to also be fair pass the d@rn ball.
The lowest pPSN without hitting zero was a barn burner, but Steve Novak's .0321 couldn't quite catch DJ Mbenga's .0320. Fun fact: Novak's only assist in 189 minutes played was to DeMar DeRozan on a twenty footer to cut the Nets' lead to twenty. The Raptors who had been up 3-2 went on to lose the series, but this first taste of playoff disappointment in 2014 hardened the Raptors' mental strength and in future pffffffft
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