What’s New for 2019-2020 Season?

What’s new for our 2019-2020 season? Aside from new players and new coaching staff, more data analytics!

Beginning this season, we will have a separate category of 8 hustle stats: “These are the intangibles that don’t show up in the traditional box scores. Diving for loose balls, getting a hand in passing lanes for a deflection, being close enough to contest a shot, or sacrificing the body and taking a charge, etc, etc, etc”

8 Hustle Stats
  1. (NEW) 2-PT FG Contested – how many times did a player contest a 2-PT field goal? Doing so reduces the chance of the other team from scoring.
  2. (NEW) 3-PT FG Contested – how many times did a player contest a 3-PT field goal? Doing so reduces the chance of the other team from scoring.
  3. (NEW) Loose-Ball Recovered – how many times did a player recover a loose ball? Recovering a loose ball increases the probability of possession.
  4. (NEW) Deflections – how many times did a player deflect the ball away from the other team, whether this results in a turnover or the opposing team retaining possession?
  5. (NEW) Screen Assist – a screen that directly leads to a basket by the player who received the screen. This is the only hustle stat that is in the offensive category.
  6. (NO CHANGE) Deflections to Out of Bounds stat.
  7. (NO CHANGE) Take Charge stat.
  8. (NO CHANGE) Forced Jump Ball stat.

 

Other New Stats
  1. (NEW) PTS off REBs – how many points did a team make coming off a rebound? Shows the value of getting offensive rebounds.
  2. (NEW) Starter/Bench Ratio- what is the ratio of stats by the starting 5 compared to the rest of the team? PTS REB AST BLK STL +/- EFFICIENCY.
  3. (NEW) NUM of Times Combo 5 Used In a Game – how many times was a 5-player combination used/subbed WITHIN A GAME? For example, the combo played in 1Q, 3Q, and twice in 4Q. Total=4.
  4. (NO CHANGE) ‘In How Many Games Did a 5-Player Combo Play’ stat.

 

Articles on Hustle Stats

NBA Hustle Stats

 

How Do You Measure Hustle in the NBA? There’s a Stat for That

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/13225337/nba-track-hustle-stats-all-games-las-vegas-summer-league

http://82games.com/nba-hustle-stats.htm/

https://www.nba.com/article/2017/12/22/marcin-gortat-washington-wizards-screen-assists

 

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