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NickS



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:38 am    Post subject: Preseason Predictions Reply with quote

Seeing that Mike G has followed DW21 in putting up a set of preseason predictions I thought it would be good to have one thread with links to all of the predictions.

In chronological order I see:

John Hollinger

Code:
    TEAM         PROJECTED RECORD     PROJECTED DIV. FINISH
1.     Chicago Bulls         55-27      1st in Central
2.     Cleveland Cavaliers   54-28     2nd in Central
3.     Boston Celtics        51-31     1st in Atlantic
4.     Orlando Magic         49-33     1st in Southeast
5.     Detroit Pistons       48-34     3rd in Central
6.     Miami Heat            43-39     2nd in Southeast
7.     Atlanta Hawks         42-40     3rd in Southeast
8.     Toronto Raptors       40-42     2nd in Atlantic
9.     New Jersey Nets       39-43     3rd in Atlantic
10.     New York Knicks      38-44     4th in Atlantic
11.     Milwaukee Bucks      35-47     4th in Central
12.     Charlotte Bobcats    34-48     4th in Southeast
13.     Washington Wizards   33-49     5th in Southeast
14.     Indiana Pacers       28-54     5th in Central
15.     Philadelphia 76ers   21-61     5th in Atlantic

    TEAM         PROJECTED RECORD     PROJECTED DIV. FINISH
1.     Houston Rockets       61-21     1st in Southwest
2.     San Antonio Spurs     59-23     2nd in Southwest
3.     Dallas Mavericks      58-24     3rd in Southwest (5th seed)
4.     Phoenix Suns          54-28     1st in Pacific (3rd seed)
5.     Denver Nuggets        53-29     1st in Northwest (4th seed)
6.     Utah Jazz             50-32     2nd in Northwest
7.     Los Angeles Lakers    43-39     2nd in Pacific
8.     New Orleans Hornets   39-43     4th in Southwest
9.     Golden State Warriors 36-46     3rd in Pacific
10.     Seattle SuperSonics  35-47     3rd in Northwest
11.     Memphis Grizzlies    34-48     5th in Southwest
12.     Sacramento Kings     27-55     4th in Pacific
13.     Portland Trail Blazers   26-56     4th in Northwest
14.     Minnesota Timberwolves   22-60     5th in Northwest
15.     Los Angeles Clippers     20-62     5th in Pacific


davis21wylie2121

Code:
Year    Team            Conf    Seed    Div     MP      Pace    Poss    PF      PA      ORtg    DRtg    Avg W   Avg L
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2007-08 Chicago Bulls   E       1       C       19852   93.4    7726    8146    7647    105.4   99.0    57.7    24.3
2007-08 Boston Celtics  E       2       A       19874   92.1    7627    8262    8000    108.3   104.9   50.2    31.8
2007-08 Cleveland Cavs  E       3       C       19850   90.5    7485    8077    7592    107.9   101.4   57.1    24.9
2007-08 Orlando Magic   E       4       S       19813   89.9    7422    7988    7866    107.6   106.0   45.8    36.2
2007-08 Detroit Pistons E       5       C       19874   87.3    7229    7779    7576    107.6   104.8   48.7    33.3
2007-08 Toronto Raptors E       6       A       19861   92.3    7638    8091    8143    105.9   106.6   40.0    42.0
2007-08 Washington Wiz  E       7       S       19815   93.7    7736    8521    8585    110.1   111.0   39.9    42.1
2007-08 Miami Heat      E       8       S       19848   90.3    7468    7707    7829    103.2   104.8   37.6    44.4
2007-08 New Jersey Nets E       9       A       19843   90.9    7516    7749    7898    103.1   105.1   36.9    45.1
2007-08 Atlanta Hawks   E       10      S       19872   90.2    7469    7891    8146    105.7   109.1   33.4    48.6
2007-08 New York Knicks E       11      A       19933   90.8    7541    8037    8312    106.6   110.2   32.7    49.3
2007-08 Indiana Pacers  E       12      C       19796   91.5    7547    7635    7920    101.2   104.9   32.0    50.0
2007-08 Char. Bobcats   E       13      S       19921   92.3    7661    7894    8252    103.0   107.7   29.7    52.3
2007-08 Phila. 76ers    E       14      A       19884   91.4    7572    7746    8106    102.3   107.0   29.7    52.3
2007-08 Milwaukee Bucks E       15      C       19832   92.0    7602    8018    8461    105.5   111.3   27.4    54.6
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2007-08 SA Spurs        W       1       S       19799   89.5    7383    8029    7220    108.7   97.8    65.2    16.8
2007-08 Phoenix Suns    W       2       P       19889   95.7    7931    9011    8452    113.6   106.6   56.9    25.1
2007-08 Dallas Mavs     W       3       S       19804   89.4    7377    8313    7605    112.7   103.1   62.2    19.8
2007-08 Utah Jazz       W       4       N       19831   90.7    7494    8171    8034    109.0   107.2   45.3    36.7
2007-08 Houston Rockets W       5       S       19844   92.0    7607    8205    7741    107.9   101.8   55.2    26.8
2007-08 Denver Nuggets  W       6       N       19840   96.4    7969    8608    8491    108.0   106.6   44.4    37.6
2007-08 NO Hornets      W       7       S       19862   89.8    7432    7900    7904    106.3   106.4   40.3    41.7
2007-08 LA Lakers       W       8       P       19874   92.8    7685    8339    8352    108.5   108.7   40.2    41.8
2007-08 Sac. Kings      W       9       P       19832   94.1    7776    8192    8343    105.4   107.3   36.0    46.0
2007-08 Memphis Grizz   W       10      S       19839   91.8    7588    8038    8205    105.9   108.1   35.2    46.8
2007-08 GS Warriors     W       11      P       19835   97.6    8066    8459    8667    104.9   107.4   34.4    47.6
2007-08 Seattle Sonics  W       12      N       19807   91.5    7551    8066    8274    106.8   109.6   34.0    48.0
2007-08 LA Clippers     W       13      P       19856   90.8    7512    7794    8005    103.7   106.6   33.7    48.3
2007-08 Minn. T-Wolves  W       14      N       19854   90.5    7487    7592    8037    101.4   107.3   26.2    55.8
2007-08 Por.Blazers     W       15      N       19784   88.3    7279    7460    8055    102.5   110.7   21.8    60.2


Mike G

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  West          East   
tm    W       tm    W
Dal   62      Bos   55
SA    61      Cle   53
Phx   60      Chi   52
Hou   56      Det   51
Uta   52      Tor   43

Den   45      Was   41
NO    41      NJ    41
LAL   38      Orl   40
GS    37      NY    40
Mem   37      Mia   40

LAC   36      Cha   33
Sac   34      Atl   30
Sea   29      Ind   30
Min   25      Mil   29
Por   15      Phi   25


Anyone I'm missing?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

.......................DW MikeG Hollinger
Atlanta Hawks 33.4 30 42
Boston Celtics 50.2 55 51
Char. Bobcats 29.7 33 34
Chicago Bulls 57.7 52 55
Cleveland Cavs 57.1 53 54
Detroit Pistons 48.7 51 48
Indiana Pacers 32.0 30 28
Miami Heat 37.6 40 43
Milwaukee Bucks 27.4 29 35
New Jersey Nets 36.9 41 39
New York Knicks 32.7 40 38
Orlando Magic 45.8 40 49
Phila. 76ers 29.7 25 21
Toronto Raptors 40.0 43 40
Washington Wiz 39.9 41 33
----------------- -----
Dallas Mavs 62.2 62 58
Denver Nuggets 44.4 45 53
GS Warriors 34.4 37 36
Houston Rockets 55.2 56 61
LA Clippers 33.7 36 20
LA Lakers 40.2 38 43
Memphis Grizz 35.2 37 34
Minn. T-Wolves 26.2 25 22
NO Hornets 40.3 41 39
Phoenix Suns 56.9 60 54
Por.Blazers 21.8 15 26
SA Spurs 65.2 61 59
Sac. Kings 36.0 34 27
Seattle Sonics 34.0 29 35
Utah Jazz 45.3 52 50


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could you format that into columns?

It might improve readability to repeat the headers so you don't have to scroll to see who predicted what.

This does make it easier to see points of divergence in the predictions.

    Hollinger likes the Hawks more than either of the other two (10 win difference).

    Mike G likes the Celtics more than either DW or JH (4-5 wins)

    DW doesn't like the Bobcats as well as MG or JH (5-6 wins)

    Hollinger like the Bucks more (6-8 wins)

    Mike G not a fan of the Magic (6-9 wins)

    You have swapped the Spurs and Kings in the JH column.

    JH loves the Nuggets (8-9 wins difference)

    JH hates the Wizards and Clippers (as previously discussed)

    DW likes the 76ers

    Mike G doesn't predict good things for the Blazers or Sonics.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know how to get columns to transfer over right.
If someone else wants to do that great. I took a step in response to your helpful step. If someone explains the procedure to me and it is easy I may do it later. Or maybe I'll look up the past threads that discuss how to do it better. (Update: I looked at tab2spaces but haven't figure it out yet.)

I was coming in to correct the SA Spurs / Sacto error which I just caught as well.

Looks like there are small rounding errors in each or in my consolidation of them.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was helpful, it made it much easier to compare the predictions.

Now I'm curious why Hollinger likes the Nuggets and Hawks as much as he does, and why DW and MG don't like the Magic as much as either JH or the conventional wisdom.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking at these 3 predictions and giving it a little thought I'll offer my take:

Atlanta Hawks 35
Boston Celtics 51
Char. Bobcats 30
Chicago Bulls 54
Cleveland Cavs 49
Detroit Pistons 53
Indiana Pacers 28
Miami Heat 40
Milwaukee Bucks 32
New Jersey Nets 42
New York Knicks 42
Orlando Magic 40
Phila. 76ers 28
Toronto Raptors 42
Washington Wiz 37
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Dallas Mavs 58
Denver Nuggets 53
GS Warriors 39
Houston Rockets 53
LA Clippers 28
LA Lakers 40
Memphis Grizz 34
Minn. T-Wolves 23
NO Hornets 43
Phoenix Suns 57
Por.Blazers 26
Spurs 59
Sac. Kings 35
Seattle Sonics 29
Utah Jazz 50
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's a 'formatted' (via Notepad) version, also updated on my end. First, the West:
Code:
Avg.   team   JohnH  DW21    MikeG
61.2    Dal    58    62.2    63.5
61.0    SA     59    65.2    58.8
57.5    Hou    61    55.2    56.3
56.5    Phx    54    56.9    58.6
49.8    Uta    50    45.3    54.1
46.7    Den    53    44.4    42.6
40.5    LAL    43    40.2    38.2
40.2    NO     39    40.3    41.4
36.7    GS     36    34.4    39.6
35.6    Mem    34    35.2    37.5
32.3    Sea    35    34.0    27.9
31.7    Sac    27    36.0    32.0
29.1    LAC    20    33.7    33.6
25.0    Min    22    26.2    26.9
22.1    Por    26    21.8    18.6

   total      617     631     630

I stuck with DW's minutes assignments, including:
1200 min for Kenyon Martin
1100 for Elton Brand
1600 fewer minutes for both Hassell and Juwan Howard, in Minny.
1462 from Stojakovic
only 280 min. from BSkinner in Phx (down from 1518 in Mil)
1100 for DMiles
2143-minute man Udoka (Por) goes to SA for 94 min?

I don't have a better guess for some of these, but there are some iffy-at-best cases. If Brand doesn't appear, then John's 20-62 might be closest.
In the West, I've upgraded Por, Uta, Min, and GS by 2.2-3.5 wins. They all have young players likely to improve.

Last year, the West won 68 games more than the East. Both DW and I have the East cutting that deficit by more than half; John sees it almost disappearing (Atl fan).

Code:
Avg.   team  JohnH   DW21    MikeG
55.3    Chi    55    57.7    53.2
54.9    Cle    54    57.1    53.5
51.7    Bos    51    50.2    54.0
48.1    Det    48    48.7    47.6
45.3    Orl    49    45.8    41.0
41.8    Tor    40    40.0    45.5
38.8    Mia    43    37.6    35.9
38.7    NJ     39    36.9    40.1
37.5    Was    33    39.9    39.5
36.0    NY     38    32.7    37.3
35.8    Atl    42    33.4    31.9
33.0    Cha    34    29.7    35.3
30.7    Mil    35    27.4    29.7
30.0    Ind    28    32.0    30.1
25.5    Phi    21    29.7    25.7

   total      610    599     600

The only shift in my ordering was that Orl and Mia switched spots. Cha and Tor gain 2+ wins; NY, Det, and Mia each lose 2.3-3.8 more.

On DW's minutes:
Why does up-and-comer Josh Smith lose 325 minutes?
Antoine Walker now gets 36 mpg, after being down to 24?
Foyle gets 1600 minutes (Orl), while Battie loses his?

I don't have inside information, so I'm just asking.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike G wrote:

On DW's minutes:
Why does up-and-comer Josh Smith lose 325 minutes?
Foyle gets 1600 minutes (Orl), while Battie loses his?

I don't have inside information, so I'm just asking.



I can't speak to the rest, but I do know that Atlanta just used their #3 pick on a player who plays the same position as Smith and Tony Battie had shoulder surgery and is likely out for the season.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What THWilson said.

Although I do admit this: I couldn't really sort out the Hawks' PG situation, so I weaseled out of making the decision to cut Lue and/or Anthony Johnson's minutes severely enough, which in turn meant there were fewer minutes to hand to Smith/Childress/Marvin. That one was my bad; at some point I'll post a revision where I cut the PG's minutes to logical levels (right now they're at 68.5 combined MPG, which is absurd), and I'll see what it does to ATL's record. Good catch there, Mike.

And Walker? Well, I projected 35 MPG pretty much by default (assuming he can get into shape again, which I admit probably won't happen), because nobody behind him on the depth chart at either SF or PF is really worth a damn (as if Walker is! -- but I digress). Simien and Dorell Wright will see more minutes, but how many more? It's a guessing game, because Posey's gone, and I haven't got a clue who fills that hole. Wright, I guess. Tell you what -- I'll also shift Posey's '07 minutes to Wright, downgrade Antoine accordingly, and see how much MIA, um, improves... And on a related note: Wow, this Miami team is going to disappoint the non-stats crowd. Reality check for Mr. Kenny Smith!
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JohnH likes Atl, Orl and Mia a lot more than the rest of us do. Is that a southern bias?

If I expect DHoward to improve by 10% this year, that adds 2.4 wins for Orl. Their other main guys (RLewis, Nelson, Turkoglu) I don't expect to improve; though any of them could, Hedo just had a sharp peak, Nelson regressed, and Lewis is limited. Foyle doesn't even replace Battie (as much as GHill was = Lewis), so it's all on Dwight. Where are they gaining as much as 9 wins?

The Heat were about the last team that could afford defections of 2 starters, and I share DW's pain over giving Walker those minutes. If Wade goes down again, they're truly in the toilet.

Hawks are highly uncertain, but I gave the 1.1 multiplier to JSmith, MWilliams, Childress, SWilliams, and Salim. I may underestimate Horford, but not many rookies make an impact. If he's as good as Varejao, for 1358 min, figure another couple wins.

In Boston, I defied my own formula that predicts another decline from Garnett -- because, in so doing I'd be contradicting another prediction that KG would benefit from a change of scene. Pierce too could be due for a dropoff, except for the possible relief he gets now, from carrying a team.

Why do I like Tor so much? Well, I don't have an anti-north bias; and I expect improvements from Bosh, Barg, Garb, Jose. Only player on his downside might be Nesto.

I guess John likes the Bucks, too. Is that all Yi? I'm expecting more from Bogut and CharlieV, but that only helps by 2 wins. Simmons brings 4 W. Does Des get it back?

DW21: If you read the fine print of your apbrmetrics membership contract, 'weaseling' is specifically acceptable, along with 'fudging'; provided you do admit to them when probed.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

May I stick up for my Trail Blazers, who have the lowest average win total of all 30 teams in these predictions?

Randolph and Udoka are gone, and I'm assuming that the simulations are unimpressed with Frye and James Jones as replacements. Fair enough.

Is it considered that last season's team won 32 games despite Roy playing in only 57 games, Randolph in 68, Aldridge in 63, Przybilla in 43, and Miles in zero? Yes, the team exceeded its expected win total, but that projection itself is probably deflated by the margin of their losses when they played without two or more of those players.

Increased minutes for Aldridge should replace much of Randolph's production, no? LaMarcus played well when he started at power forward.

Do we expect Frye to be worthless and if so, to actually log a lot of minutes for this team?

Shouldn't we expect modest improvements from Jarrett Jack and Sergio Rodriguez, and isn't Steve Blake an upgrade over Dan Dickau, whose minutes he'll replace?

No matter when Miles returns or what he's got left, he has to be better than Martell Webster and Travis Outlaw have been for the past two seasons, right? And what of Webster and Outlaw, don't they get a "1.1 multiplier" too?

Nobody in Portland expects the Blazers to contend for the playoffs this season, but if they fail to match their win total from 2006-2007 it can only be because Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge fall well short of expectations. Just by virtue of those two playing many more minutes they should be worth a couple extra wins, let alone if we also project them to improve. I just don't see how losing Randoph and Udoka not only offsets every improvement we can reasonably expect from the remaining players but also costs the team 10 or more wins from last season's total.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here are the Blazers projected minutes, same as those provided by DW21 in another thread; last year's eWins/1000 minutes rates; a factor (either .9, 1.0, or 1.1) producing this year's possible eW/1000; and the eWins resulting.
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  Portland       pos   Min   e1000  fac  e1000  eWins
Jack,Jarrett     PG   2680   1.77   1.1   1.95   5.2
Roy,Brandon      SG   2308   2.71   1.1   2.98   6.9
Webster,Martell  SF   1920    .75   1.1    .82   1.6
Frye,Channing    PF   1899   1.64   1.0   1.64   3.1
Aldridge,Lamarcus C   1863   2.16   1.1   2.38   4.4

Outlaw,Travis    SF   1496   1.48   1.1   1.63   2.4
Blake,Steve      PG   1420   1.02   1.0   1.02   1.4
Jones,James      SF   1350    .73   1.0    .73   1.0
Miles, Darius    sf   1104   1.00   1.0   1.00   1.1
Lafrentz,Raef     C    944    .76    .9    .68    .6

Rodriguez,Sergio PG    910   1.08   1.1   1.19   1.1
Przybilla,Joel    C    901    .84   1.0    .84    .8
McRoberts, Josh  pf    840    .80   1.0    .80    .7
Green, Taurean   pg    150    .10   1.0    .10    .0
Last season, Aldridge only played 1390 Min. He could certainly go more than 1863, but he has no 'history' of playing more.
Miles' modest rate is only commensurate with a 1100-minute guy, not with whatever his current potential is (and I have no idea of that).

The eWins add up to 30.4 . The formula for eXpected wins is:
xW = 2*eW - 41 (for an 82-game season). This comes to 19.7 expected wins, from this lineup (playing these minutes).
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Tim Lehrbach



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks. I didn't realize you were projecting Roy and Aldridge to miss significant time again. Makes sense, I guess, if their one-year histories are our only reference.

What would happen to the Blazers' projection if both Roy and Aldridge played in 2600 minutes, taking away some time from Webster, Frye, and Miles to get them those minutes?

Unless something goes terribly wrong, there is little chance Martell Webster is third on this team in minutes played at the end of the year.
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