![\"NBA](\"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NBA-Brightest-Stars-Wordle.png\" "\\"NBA")
<\/a>The NBA's Brightest Stars: Wordle Visualization<\/p><\/div>\n
There have been 25,877 individual performances so far in this NBA season, so just making this chart is significant. Chris Paul<\/a> has shown the brightest, with 4 Top 50 performances, 4 Top 100 performances (including the top 50–so none between 50 and 100) and 11 total top 250 performances.<\/p>\n There are 4 players who have had 3 Top 50 performances–you know them. These are players who can take over the game completely: Howard, James, Durant, and Ellis. (Yes, Ellis also has several of the worst performances this year.)<\/p>\n There are 10 players that were a flash-in-the-pan. Players that for one, and for only one night, played a game for the ages–and then it was over. You’ll remember them, too: Ty Lawson<\/a>‘s 10-10 3’s streak. Bargnani going for 41-7-6 on the Knicks. Matt Barnes<\/a> pouring in 24-7-6 in just 24 minutes without missing any shots. The other 7: Amare Stoudemire<\/a>, Marcus Thornton<\/a>, Rudy Gay<\/a>, Toney Douglas<\/a>, Carlos Boozer<\/a>, Andre Miller<\/a>, and Andris Biedrins<\/a>. Yes, Amare only had 1 top 250 performance this year.<\/p>\n On the other hand, there were some workmanlike superstars, players with a bundle of top-250 performances this year: Chris Paul<\/a> had his 11, Kevin Love<\/a> turned in a massive 10, Howard had 9, Lebron and LaMarcus Aldridge<\/a> had 8, and Monta Ellis<\/a> and Zach Randolph<\/a> had 7 each. No one else had more than 5 top-250 performances.<\/p>\n One final note: Tony Allen<\/a> had 2 top 50 performances, and 3 top 100 performances. His NBA-wide 13th-best performance of the year line: 9-12 from the floor and 9-12 from the line for 27 pts, with 4 Rbs, 1 Ast, 5 steals, and 3 blocks at OKC to carry Memphis to a win on February 8th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m working on a new metric to quickly measure a player’s single-game contribution (a slightly more complex “game score”). I’ve tabulated the results for every game played this year, and that lets me do this: Here are the brightest stars in the NBA, by dominant superstar performances this year. I’m giving 3 points for a … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[26,54,31,22,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}