NAME POS GP MIN WP48 PoP48 WINS PTS REB AST TO BLK STL PF
Hilton Armstrong C 70 1092 -.020 -3.7 -0.46 14.9 8.6 1.3 3.5 2.0 1.1 8.0
Ryan Bowen SF 21 219 .107 0.2 0.49 10.3 5.3 2.0 1.1 1.1 3.1 8.1
Devin Brown SG 63 869 -.035 -4.2 -0.64 18.1 6.6 3.0 3.0 0.3 1.8 4.5
Rasual Butler SG 82 2614 .103 0.1 5.62 16.9 5.0 1.4 1.1 1.1 0.9 2.9
Tyson Chandler C 45 1445 .135 1.1 4.06 13.2 13.1 0.7 2.3 1.9 0.5 4.8
Antonio Daniels PG 61 733 .063 -1.1 0.96 15.3 3.6 8.5 3.2 0.1 1.2 2.7
Melvin Ely C 31 373 -.160 -8.0 -1.24 12.5 8.2 2.3 3.0 1.2 0.3 7.5
Mike James PG 8 74 -.106 -6.4 -0.16 13.0 4.5 5.2 1.9 0.0 1.3 4.5
Sean Marks C 60 838 -.001 -3.1 -0.02 11.0 10.7 0.8 2.0 1.9 0.4 6.9
Chris Paul PG 78 3002 .372 8.5 23.28 28.5 6.9 13.8 3.7 0.2 3.5 3.4
Morris Peterson SG 43 515 .033 -2.1 0.35 17.8 7.8 1.5 1.4 0.2 1.4 4.8
James Posey SF 75 2140 .105 0.2 4.68 15.0 8.1 1.8 1.8 0.5 1.3 4.8
Peja Stojakovic SF 61 2089 .076 -0.7 3.33 18.7 6.1 1.7 1.2 0.1 1.2 2.3
David West PF 76 2982 .059 -1.3 3.64 25.6 10.4 2.8 2.6 1.1 0.8 3.3
Julian Wright PF 54 772 .127 0.9 2.04 14.7 9.5 2.7 2.7 1.2 2.2 3.0
Name FG% 2FG% 3FG% FT% eFG% TS% FGA 3FGA FTA
Hilton Armstrong 56.1% 56.6% 0.0% 63.3% 56.1% 58.5% 10.8 0.1 4.3
Ryan Bowen 57.9% 57.9% 0.0% 60.0% 57.9% 58.5% 8.3 0.0 1.1
Devin Brown 35.5% 38.4% 28.9% 78.0% 39.9% 45.9% 17.3 5.4 5.5
Rasual Butler 43.3% 46.8% 39.0% 78.2% 52.1% 54.1% 14.7 6.6 2.0
Tyson Chandler 56.5% 56.5% 0.0% 57.9% 56.5% 58.1% 9.4 0.0 4.4
Antonio Daniels 42.4% 45.1% 34.7% 82.1% 46.9% 53.1% 12.5 3.2 4.4
Melvin Ely 38.9% 38.9% 0.0% 63.9% 38.9% 43.8% 12.2 0.0 4.6
Mike James 32.0% 23.8% 75.0% 50.0% 38.0% 38.6% 16.2 2.6 1.3
Sean Marks 48.5% 50.3% 20.0% 68.2% 49.1% 52.1% 9.5 0.6 2.5
Chris Paul 50.3% 52.5% 36.4% 86.8% 52.8% 59.9% 20.1 2.8 8.4
Morris Peterson 39.9% 40.8% 38.8% 63.2% 48.9% 49.9% 17.1 7.9 1.8
James Posey 41.2% 47.6% 36.9% 82.2% 52.3% 56.8% 11.8 7.0 3.3
Peja Stojakovic 39.9% 42.4% 37.8% 89.4% 50.0% 53.1% 16.5 8.8 2.4
David West 47.2% 47.7% 24.0% 88.4% 47.4% 54.0% 20.8 0.4 6.7
Julian Wright 46.6% 50.2% 9.5% 56.7% 47.0% 47.9% 14.5 1.3 1.9
  WP48 WINS PTS DRB ORB TRB AST TO BLK STL PF
NOR 0.000 45.9 95.8 29.9 9.8 39.7 19.6 12.5 4.1 7.2 20.3
AVG 0.500 41.0 100.0 30.3 11.0 41.3 21.0 14.0 4.8 7.3 21.0
OPP 1.000 36.1 94.3 30.0 10.0 40.0 20.1 13.3 3.5 5.8 20.4
AVGOPP 0.500 41.0 100.0 30.3 11.0 41.3 21.0 14.0 4.8 7.3 21.0
  FG% 2FG% 3FG% FT% eFG% TS% FGA 3FGA FTA
NOR 45.7% 48.7% 36.4% 80.7% 50.1% 54.8% 77.6 18.6 22.4
AVG 45.9% 48.5% 36.7% 77.1% 50.0% 54.4% 80.9 18.1 24.7

Wins Produced
Expected* Actual Forecast**
45.9-36.1 49-33 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?