APBRmetrics

cherokee_ACB · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 44

Data for the 2005-06 NBA season, extracted from basketballvalue play-by-plays.

Offense:
POR 78
UTA 76
MEM 73
NOK 66
HOU 66
MIN 60
SEA 57
DAL 56
BOS 55
NJN 52
ORL 51
SAC 49
NYK 49
LAC 47
CHA 46
DET 46
IND 45
ATL 44
MIL 44
LAL 43
MIA 41
TOR 40
WAS 40
PHI 40
PHX 39
GSW 39
SAS 37
CLE 34
DEN 34
CHI 22

Defense:
BOS 67
PHI 66
MIA 63
MIN 61
MEM 60
DEN 59
HOU 58
SEA 58
CHI 55
ATL 55
DAL 53
NJN 53
LAC 53
SAS 49
TOR 48
WAS 47
LAL 47
PHX 47
IND 46
DET 46
GSW 45
NYK 45
ORL 42
CLE 42
SAC 40
NOK 39
POR 38
CHA 32
UTA 31
MIL 24

Defense-offense differential:
CHI 33
PHI 26
DEN 25
MIA 22
SAS 12
BOS 12
ATL 11
TOR 8
PHX 8
CLE 8
WAS 7
GSW 6
LAC 6
LAL 4
NJN 1
MIN 1
IND 1
SEA 1
DET 0
DAL -3
NYK -4
HOU -8
ORL -9
SAC -9
MEM -13
CHA -14
MIL -20
NOK -27
POR -40
UTA -45

Is there any conclusion we can draw from this?

Mike G · Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 971 Location: Delphi, Indiana

THWilson · Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 45 Location: phoenix

Interesting data. A couple things I noticed:

StDev on offense: 13.1
StDev on defense: 10.4

This suggests to me that poor offense is a more significant cause than quality defense. Correlating both the offensive and defensive counts to the four factors (thanks Knickerblogger) nothing really jumps out, but looking at pace yields a -.6 correlation between pace and 24 second violations commited. So slow teams violate the shot clock more often, which makes a lot of sense.