http://www.in-the-game.org/allocate-to-accumulate/ Euroleague Blog Sat, 16 Nov 2013 04:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 http://www.in-the-game.org/allocate-to-accumulate/comment-page-1/#comment-12182 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:12:00 +0000 http://www.in-the-game.org/?p=24197#comment-12182 Ah I see. So the things you want to display in your chart are (1) distance of all players to team average scoring efficiency and (2) importance of players. I’ve created similar charts, where I used color and size of the player’s dot to reflect this; so I would plot usage percentage against scoring efficiency, size the dot according to the average finishes per game (finishes = plays used + assist) and color the dot according to the average minutes played. See for example the chart in this blog post.

]]> http://www.in-the-game.org/allocate-to-accumulate/comment-page-1/#comment-12181 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:18:00 +0000 http://www.in-the-game.org/?p=24197#comment-12181 Hi Marijn, thanks for your comment, I chose to use usage per game rather than usage percentage as it gives us a better idea of how important a player is to the team, while youre correct that both players will be at the same point of the graph, despite one having a more impressive performance, they both contributed the same amount to the team (5 points per game). I chose this to avoid having a player, like Sofoklis Schortsanitis, who has a very high usage percentage in limited minutes, being represented as being more important than any of the players who have a lower usage percentage but are used on more possessions per game. I hope this answers your question. George Rowland (Author)

]]> http://www.in-the-game.org/allocate-to-accumulate/comment-page-1/#comment-12180 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:33:00 +0000 http://www.in-the-game.org/?p=24197#comment-12180 Very interesting article. Could explain why you use “usages per game” instead of “usage percentage”? For instance, using your method, how would two players compare that both have 5 usages per game, and both produce 1 point per play? Player 1 does it in ten minutes (using say 20 total team possessions, usage percentage = .25) and Player 2 in 20 minutes (using 40 team possessions, usage percentage = .125). As far as I can tell, both players would end up on the same location in your chart. But in my opinion, from a scoring perspective, their performance is very different (player 1′s performance is more impressive).

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