Yesterday’s game was particularly interesting–the Spurs and Celtics are the 2nd and 3rd best teams in the league<\/a> thus far.\u00a0 How did the players do?<\/p>\n Well, look at the box score on Basketball Reference<\/a>.\u00a0 The big 3 from the Spurs played well, and Rondo and Ray Allen were amazing.<\/p>\n Here’s the ASPM version of the box score:<\/p>\n Advanced Statistical Plus\/Minus Box Score for the 1\/5\/11 Spurs-Celtics Game<\/p><\/div>\n Ginobilli was really the star of the game.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 What did he do more than Rondo or Allen?\u00a0 Let’s have a look at their stats: Glossary:<\/p>\n Recently, I developed a method for analyzing single games through the Advanced Statistical Plus\/Minus (ASPM) lens. Basically, in order to keep the data in the range where the weights for the stats makes sense (some of the weights are nonlinear), I add several games worth of average stats to the player’s stat line. I then … [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":[14,13,12],"tags":[56,26,54,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ASPM](\"http:\/\/godismyjudgeok.com\/DStats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ASPM-Box-2011-01-05-Spurs-Celtics.png\" "\\"ASPM")
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\n\t \nStarters<\/th> MP<\/th> TS%<\/th> eFG%<\/th> ORB%<\/th> DRB%<\/th> TRB%<\/th> AST%<\/th> STL%<\/th> BLK%<\/th> TOV%<\/th> USG%<\/th> ORtg<\/th> DRtg<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n\t Manu Ginobili<\/td> 33.52<\/td> 77.3%<\/td> 70.8%<\/td> 10.6<\/td> 18.7<\/td> 15.7<\/td> 11.9<\/td> 7.9<\/td> 0<\/td> 20.5<\/td> 28.9<\/td> 131<\/td> 102<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Rajon Rondo<\/td> 43.50<\/td> 60.0%<\/td> 60.0%<\/td> 12.3<\/td> 16.8<\/td> 15.1<\/td> 61.6<\/td> 7.3<\/td> 1.7<\/td> 33.3<\/td> 17.1<\/td> 129<\/td> 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Ray Allen<\/td> 38.70<\/td> 85.2%<\/td> 87.5%<\/td> 0<\/td> 5.4<\/td> 3.4<\/td> 24.9<\/td> 1.4<\/td> 0<\/td> 5.2<\/td> 24.7<\/td> 159<\/td> 119<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nOkay, so maybe his stats weren’t really that much better than the other 2. He had the highest usage, and that is worth a bunch when accounting for TS%. He also led in steal% (with a ridiculous 5 steals in 33 minutes). Taken all together, he did have the best stats of the bunch. Much of the difference, though, was actually in the team adjustment, seen in the image above–without this, their totals are all fairly close. Boston had a ton of steals and blocks and the system handed out a bunch of defensive credit–but their defense wasn’t actually good (113.4 rating allowed). So there is a big team adjustment because of the poor defensive showing, dropping all players on the team down so the totals sum as they should. This is one of the quirks to the system.<\/p>\n\n