‘Tis the season of shooters. From Eric Gordon, Bradley Beal and James Harden (oh wait, he’s supposedly a point guard) I’ve seen just a crazy amount of players, shooting guards or not, letting it fly.
Let’s take a quick look at the chart of opposing SGs vs each NBA team.
by: JG
Floor General?! And no, this article isn’t about the sales of Steph Curry ‘s “Floor General” shoe.
I’m not even sure this is what they even call point guards nowadays, with the game moving more away from traditional point guards and onto combo guards and point forwards.
After focusing on best teams to face for big men stats, let’s take a look at the best teams to face when looking for categories that suit point guards.
Sooooooo…roughly 20 games in and more data to look at! Let’s get right down into it. Remember the 1st time I did this about 5 weeks ago? Now let’s take a look at the grid and do a short comparison. Left is the latest, right is what it was when we first started this series.
Dec. 7 Grid Nov. 4 Grid
by: JG
Hope everyone’s week is going well. No grid this week and instead I want to focus on the opposing bench players.
Let’s face it, in a standard league, most of the available players in the FA pool are unlikely to be starters. For fantasy purposes, that doesn’t mean they can’t contribute to categories that your team need to defend or categories that your team can unexpectedly win.
Please, blog, may I have some more? by: JG
First off, Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone! Here’s a little Thanksgiving edition of The Numbers Game. I promise to keep it short so as to not interfere with the eating and the shopping.
I’ll do a reverse this week and start off with the Victor Oladipo analysis and do the matchup by the numbers later on.
Last week, I covered the defensive aspect of Dipo’s season stats. Let’s look at the offensive side so far this season–15 games in (as of writing, he will be playing his 16th game).
Please, blog, may I have some more?Here’s the matchup grid updated prior to the 1030 ET time games last night.
I don’t want to go in depth on this today as I’d like to spend some time talking about a specific player below. The next in-depth discussion will be in a couple of weeks when we have a nice full month of data. Just wanted to point out that GSW remains near the top of teams to target, albeit they seem to have tightened it up a bit on the rebounding category compared to last week.
Some names to target for the rest of the week:
Please, blog, may I have some more? by: JG
Using a little reference there, with regards to the latest election results. It’s a perfect example of how to never just take the statistics in front us as the end all and be all ESPECIALLY when there are non numerical factors in play.
However, that’s done with, and time to focus more important things in life…the 3 Fs–Family, Friends and Fantasy Basketball.
Here’s this week’s grid. (If you need a reference as to what this grid shows, you can always take a look at my attempt to simplify it.
For easier reference I’ve posted last week’s grid as well just to show how the match-up stats have changed as expected due to the low sample size and how one additional game can cause a big change. Current week on the left, last week on the right.
by: JG
Hello Razzballers! Welcome to the inaugural edition of the “The Numbers Game”. I know, plain vanilla title but hopefully there will be some interesting golden nuggets of actionable information each week for everyone. And I promise to not make it sound as boring as Statistics class.
This weekly segment will dig a little deeper into some league, team and players stats WITHOUT (hopefully) having to use the words Standard Deviation, Z-Scores, and all those weird stat symbols. Who needs those when we can all exchange friendly banter in the comments section, criticize coaches and go through the roller coaster ride we submit ourselves each NBA season in the comments section.
The season is young and therefore take all of these stats with a grain of salt. Nothing like the lack of sample size to skew numbers as outliers can easily move the numbers. There is also the subjective aspect of it–whether it be a coaching change (did I hear someone say Asshat?) or a major lineup change or even just a relatively higher number of back to back games so far.
So without further ado, let’s get down to the it. This is a grid provided by BBM to its readers. You might want to open it up in another tab as you might want to look back at it while reading further below.
Please, blog, may I have some more?