Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Ever wounder who are most effective starting 5 are? I took the offensive efficiency stats from kenpom.com and calculated the efficiency for each different combination of players we used against OU this weekend. Turns out the most efficient five are Carter, AK, Kirk, Law and Pompey. They average just over 2 points per possession. Our starting five average just over a 1 point per possession.

The problem? Carter, AK, Kirk, Law and Pompey only had 2 possessions. Our starting 5 had 23. I am working to get stats for all of our games, this should help.

Here are all of the numbers for the OU game:
  1. Carter, Kavaliauskas, Kirk, Law, Pompey : 2
  2. Davis, Jones, Law, Pompey, Sloan : 1.555555556
  3. Carter, Jones, Kavaliauskas, Kirk, Law : 1.086956522
  4. Jones, Kirk, Law, Pompey, Sloan : 1
  5. Davis, Kavaliauskas, Law, Pompey, Sloan : 1
  6. Carter, Jones, Kirk, Law, Pompey : 1
  7. Carter, Jones, Kavaliauskas, Law, Sloan : 0.666666667
  8. Jones, Kavaliauskas, Law, Pompey, Sloan : 0.666666667
  9. Carter, Kavaliauskas, Law, Pompey, Sloan : 0
  10. Carter, Jones, Law, Pompey, Sloan : 0
  11. Carter, Davis, Kirk, Law, Pompey : 0

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