SB Nation User Blog: sfwarriorcvg

Unadjusted plus/minus for trios

sfwarriorcvg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:20:53 -0000

http://www.82games.com/trios0708.htm

via Dwyer's blog on Yahoo!, thought this was cool, taking all different combinations of three players possible from each team's roster (that's a lot of work! Hundreds of possible combos, like POB, Perovic and Wright!!) and finding the trio with the max plus/minus. You'll be surprised who the Warrior's "best" trio is, hint, it's not who you'd assume it'd be.

I like the plus minus stat because I feel it gives more information on how much impact a player has for his team. The efficiency stats are good for comparing players from different teams w/ different schedules, but it's hard to derive a team specific ranking of players. W's fans know Stephen Jackson helps this team win, but PER tells us that he's a middling small forward. Jax's plus/minus isn't overwhelming (+8.3), but his PER is slightly over average (15.2) (PER average is set to 15 for the NBA) From those stats however, we can say that Jax, on average, creates another 8 points for W's on a given night through offense and defense, but compared to other SF on individual stats, is an average player. Anyway, I thought that was an interesting link.

Provocative question

sfwarriorcvg — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:47:27 -0000

Have the Lakers surpassed the Suns in the West? I know it's early still, but watching Bynum have his way with Stoudemire, Van Gundy posed a legit question: would the Lakers beat the Suns in a seven game playoff series?

Van Gundy weighed in on the matter and felt the Lakers would win a seven game series with the Suns, so did Bill Walton. I know Bill Walton is crazy, but I'm inclined to agree with him. Additionally, both the Suns and GS need a legit backup PG. The team who figures out how to land one first might get the leg up in the drive towards playoff seedings. Thoughts?

P Willis

sfwarriorcvg — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:01:15 -0000

Patrick made the pro bowl for the NFC, one of two Niners selected (We love Andy Lee, but when you're punter is that good, it means your offense is really THAT bad). Hopefully we can hang on to Mr. Willis, he is going to be a force for years to come.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3160120