NAME POS GP MIN WP48 PoP48 WINS PTS REB AST TO BLK STL PF
Al-Farouq Aminu SF 76 2066 .217 3.7 9.35 12.9 13.6 2.4 2.7 1.2 2.1 3.6
Louis Amundson C 18 209 .090 -0.3 0.39 10.1 13.3 1.8 1.8 1.4 2.1 6.2
Ryan Anderson PF 81 2503 .065 -1.1 3.40 25.1 10.0 1.9 1.9 0.6 0.8 3.4
Matt Carroll GF 0 0 .000 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Anthony Davis FC 64 1846 .174 2.3 6.69 22.5 13.6 1.6 2.3 2.9 2.0 4.1
Eric Gordon SG 42 1264 -.040 -4.3 -1.05 27.1 2.9 5.2 4.4 0.3 1.7 2.8
Terrel Harris SG 13 108 -.283 -11.9 -0.64 2.2 7.6 3.1 5.8 1.3 0.9 6.2
Xavier Henry GF 50 625 -.040 -4.3 -0.53 14.9 6.9 1.0 2.4 0.4 1.2 5.5
Robin Lopez C 82 2136 .113 0.4 5.01 20.9 10.4 1.4 2.5 2.9 0.7 3.8
Roger Mason SG 69 1219 .079 -0.6 2.01 14.5 5.2 2.9 2.0 0.4 1.0 4.1
Dominic McGuire F 9 145 .129 0.9 0.39 6.3 9.3 3.0 1.7 1.0 2.6 4.3
Darius Miller GF 52 694 .038 -1.9 0.55 8.2 5.4 3.0 1.6 0.8 1.2 6.2
Austin Rivers G 61 1418 -.093 -6.0 -2.75 12.8 3.7 4.3 2.5 0.3 0.9 4.1
Brian Roberts PG 78 1324 .015 -2.6 0.41 20.1 3.5 7.9 2.6 0.1 1.3 3.9
Henry Sims C 2 5 .244 4.5 0.03 38.4 19.2 0.0 9.6 0.0 0.0 9.6
Donald Sloan G 3 6 -.136 -7.3 -0.02 0.0 0.0 8.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Jason Smith FC 51 876 -.013 -3.5 -0.24 23.0 10.2 1.9 3.0 2.5 0.8 6.7
Lance Thomas SF 59 646 .135 1.1 1.81 11.1 8.5 1.3 1.0 0.5 0.8 5.8
Greivis Vasquez PG 78 2685 .080 -0.6 4.45 19.4 6.0 12.6 4.4 0.1 1.2 3.4
Hakim Warrick PF 1 7 .326 7.1 0.05 27.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.9 0.0
Name FG% 2FG% 3FG% FT% eFG% TS% FGA 3FGA FTA
Al-Farouq Aminu 47.5% 48.6% 21.1% 73.7% 47.9% 51.9% 11.0 0.4 3.2
Louis Amundson 42.9% 42.9% 0.0% 50.0% 42.9% 44.9% 9.6 0.0 3.7
Ryan Anderson 42.3% 46.4% 38.2% 84.4% 51.9% 54.8% 21.4 10.7 3.5
Matt Carroll 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0 0.0 0.0
Anthony Davis 51.6% 52.1% 0.0% 75.1% 51.6% 55.9% 17.6 0.2 5.9
Eric Gordon 40.2% 43.6% 32.4% 84.2% 45.0% 52.3% 22.2 6.6 8.4
Terrel Harris 10.5% 16.7% 0.0% 50.0% 10.5% 12.6% 8.4 3.1 0.9
Xavier Henry 41.0% 41.3% 36.4% 63.0% 42.2% 48.1% 12.4 0.8 7.1
Robin Lopez 53.4% 53.4% 0.0% 77.8% 53.4% 57.3% 16.2 0.0 4.7
Roger Mason 43.3% 45.2% 41.5% 90.7% 54.1% 57.0% 12.0 6.3 1.7
Dominic McGuire 42.9% 42.9% 0.0% 50.0% 42.9% 43.4% 7.0 0.0 0.7
Darius Miller 40.7% 42.3% 39.3% 100.0% 50.9% 52.9% 7.5 3.9 0.6
Austin Rivers 37.2% 38.5% 32.6% 54.6% 40.8% 43.1% 13.2 2.9 3.7
Brian Roberts 41.7% 43.0% 38.6% 90.9% 47.5% 50.9% 18.5 5.5 2.8
Henry Sims 66.7% 66.7% 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 66.7% 28.8 0.0 0.0
Donald Sloan 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0 0.0 0.0
Jason Smith 49.0% 49.6% 0.0% 84.3% 49.0% 54.4% 18.7 0.2 5.6
Lance Thomas 50.0% 50.0% 0.0% 72.9% 50.0% 56.5% 7.9 0.0 4.4
Greivis Vasquez 43.3% 46.2% 34.2% 80.5% 47.4% 50.2% 18.1 4.3 2.8
Hakim Warrick 50.0% 50.0% 0.0% 100.0% 50.0% 69.4% 13.7 0.0 13.7
  WP48 WINS PTS DRB ORB TRB AST TO BLK STL PF
NOR 0.358 29.3 94.1 29.6 12.0 41.6 21.0 14.5 5.4 6.3 20.4
AVG 0.500 41.0 98.1 31.0 11.2 42.1 22.1 14.6 5.1 7.8 19.8
OPP 0.642 52.7 97.9 29.2 10.2 39.3 23.4 13.2 6.0 7.9 18.7
AVGOPP 0.500 41.0 98.1 31.0 11.2 42.1 22.1 14.6 5.1 7.8 19.8
  FG% 2FG% 3FG% FT% eFG% TS% FGA 3FGA FTA
NOR 44.8% 47.3% 36.3% 77.6% 48.9% 52.8% 80.4 18.0 20.0
AVG 45.3% 48.3% 35.9% 75.3% 49.6% 53.5% 82.0 20.0 22.2

Wins Produced
Expected* Actual Forecast**
29.3-52.7 27-55 n/a

* The win-loss record that wins produced would have predicted based on players' WP48 so far (ignores previous seasons).

** future games only -- takes current record as given


Articles featuring the New Orleans Hornets

The 10 Best 2012-13 Contracts

The other day I did the ten worst contracts of the season. It was a fairly big hit, and as usual, not everyone agreed with my picks. I expect more of the same today, as I pick the ten best.

GeekTastic 2011 Season Preview II: The Southwest

The NBA Season is ready to start on Christmas Day, the last couple of preseason games are being played as I write this up, and it's time for me to cater to every serious NBA fans love of season previews!  The 2011 Geektastic Preview is going to be way too large for one article, so I'm dividing it up into divisions (and even so, it's going to be long, so get a cup of coffee!).  I'm continuing the preview here with the Southwest Division, from worst to first.

The NBA Season is ready to start on Christmas Day, the last couple of preseason games are being played as I write this up, and it's time for me to cater to every serious NBA fans love of season previews!  The 2011 Geektastic Preview is going to be way too large for one article, so I'm dividing it up into divisions (and even so, it's going to be long, so get a cup of coffee!).  In this article I'm going to preview the New Orleans Hornets, who are going to be bad, but I guess that is the way David Stern wants it to be.

The NBA's Hamster Wheel

So I've been working pretty hard lately trying to make updates to my stats, in particular so that my Comparison Engine becomes more useful. I need to incorporate the new Wins Produced model and also add data for past seasons.  Once that's done, I'll be using it extensively to prepare my season previews (and make predictions).  In the meantime, I probably won't be writing articles as long as my recent post on Eric Gordon, which apparently convinced the Clippers that yes, they should give in to the Hornets demand to include him in a trade.

More on Conflicts of Interest

Yesterday I went on a bit of a rant on the Commissioner's obvious conflict of interest in cancelling the 3-way trade that would have sent Chris Paul to the Lakers, Pau Gasol to the Rockets, and 4 players to the Hornets (Kevin Martin, Lamar Odom, Goran Dragic and Luis Scola).

The NBA Geek's Amnesty Guesses, Part 2

As with part 1 (which you can read here), I'm calling them guesses, not predictions, because this way if I'm completely wrong, I won't look as stupid.  Will I do something as crazy as amnestying Kobe freaking Bryant again today?