Comments on: Nichols and Dime: Each Player’s Impact on His Teammates’ Three-Point Shooting

By: Hardwood Paroxysm » Blog Archive » Nichols and Dime: Improvements to my Look at Player Impacts on Teammates’ Three-Point Shooting

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:09:29 +0000

[...] my last look at this subject, I calculated each player’s impact on his teammates’ three-point shooting tendencies (for a [...]

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:57:42 +0000

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:05:00 +0000

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By: Jon Nichols

Jon Nichols — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:28:16 +0000

Make % and Attempt % were often unrelated. I think that Make % is for the most part random.

And yes, I like the way the Top Attempt guys came out. It’s great when the stats confirm common knowledge.

Except for Aaron Gray. I have no idea what his deal is.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:49:51 +0000

WHY DO YOU HATE CARMELO ANTHONY????

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:16:53 +0000

Interesting to see Yao Ming doesn’t make these lists. Perhaps it’s because he doesn’t kick out as much?

By: CaptFamous

CaptFamous — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:37:26 +0000

How did most of those guys in the second list (Top Make %) fair in the Top Attempt %? It would make sense if a lot of them were in the negative (except Gray, who seems to be a gigantic fluke in this study), as their teammates could be taking fewer shots, and thus increasing their percentage merely by missing less.

The Top Attempt guys are perfectly logical. Ball-dominating penetrators, many the focus of their offense. Rondo is a bit of a special case. His percentage also reflects the fact that the Celtics didn’t have a solid backup ball handler, so his top 3 shooting teammates (Allen and Pierce) did more ballhandling when he was on the bench, and more ball handling usually means fewer threes and more dribble-drives. Also, Eddie House is the top reserve chucker on that team, and he and Rondo don’t play together.