NAME POS GP MIN WP48 PoP48 WINS PTS REB AST TO BLK STL PF
Al-Farouq Aminu SF 66 1477 .108 0.3 3.33 13.0 10.0 2.1 3.0 1.1 1.9 4.4
Trevor Ariza SF 41 1350 .136 1.1 3.81 15.8 7.6 4.8 2.7 0.9 2.5 2.6
Gustavo Ayon C 54 1088 .171 2.2 3.88 14.1 11.7 3.3 2.0 2.0 2.3 5.2
Marco Belinelli SG 66 1966 .050 -1.5 2.07 19.0 4.2 2.5 1.7 0.1 1.2 2.8
Jerome Dyson G 9 180 -.001 -3.1 -0.00 17.3 5.1 4.8 5.3 0.5 2.9 5.1
Jeff Foote C 4 39 -.213 -9.7 -0.17 4.9 7.4 0.0 2.5 1.2 0.0 6.2
Eric Gordon SG 9 310 .065 -1.1 0.42 28.6 3.9 4.8 3.7 0.6 2.0 3.1
Xavier Henry GF 45 759 .022 -2.4 0.34 15.1 6.7 2.2 2.2 0.5 1.6 3.7
Jarrett Jack PG 45 1530 .104 0.2 3.32 22.0 5.5 8.9 3.3 0.3 1.0 2.9
Carldell Johnson G 15 119 -.015 -3.6 -0.04 10.9 3.6 8.9 2.8 0.0 3.2 4.4
Trey Johnson SG 11 61 .134 1.1 0.17 16.5 9.4 3.1 3.9 0.0 0.8 7.9
Chris Johnson C 7 82 .021 -2.4 0.04 13.5 12.9 0.6 4.7 0.6 2.9 7.6
Solomon Jones FC 11 196 .013 -2.7 0.05 14.9 10.0 1.7 3.2 1.5 1.2 7.6
Chris Kaman C 47 1372 -.044 -4.4 -1.25 21.6 12.7 3.5 4.5 2.7 0.9 3.7
Carl Landry PF 41 999 .086 -0.4 1.79 24.6 10.3 1.8 3.1 0.6 0.6 4.3
Emeka Okafor C 27 781 .109 0.3 1.78 16.3 13.1 1.5 2.3 1.6 1.0 4.5
Donald Sloan G 3 41 -.113 -6.6 -0.10 14.0 3.5 9.4 5.9 0.0 2.3 2.3
Jason Smith C 40 947 .047 -1.6 0.92 20.1 9.9 1.7 2.0 2.1 1.1 5.2
DaJuan Summers SF 15 209 -.024 -3.8 -0.10 15.6 5.3 2.3 1.8 0.0 1.6 7.1
Lance Thomas F 42 629 .089 -0.3 1.16 12.8 9.6 0.9 1.8 0.5 0.8 6.0
Greivis Vasquez SG 66 1705 .110 0.3 3.92 16.6 4.9 10.1 4.2 0.2 1.7 3.5
Darryl Watkins C 5 98 .081 -0.6 0.17 11.3 13.2 1.5 3.9 2.0 2.4 6.9
Name FG% 2FG% 3FG% FT% eFG% TS% FGA 3FGA FTA
Al-Farouq Aminu 41.1% 43.1% 27.7% 75.4% 42.9% 48.1% 11.9 1.5 3.7
Trevor Ariza 41.7% 44.0% 33.3% 77.5% 45.3% 49.6% 14.3 3.1 3.6
Gustavo Ayon 53.6% 53.8% 0.0% 61.9% 53.6% 55.2% 11.5 0.0 2.8
Marco Belinelli 41.7% 44.5% 37.7% 78.3% 49.5% 52.5% 16.7 6.9 3.1
Jerome Dyson 38.3% 43.6% 12.5% 77.8% 39.4% 51.7% 12.5 2.1 9.6
Jeff Foote 33.3% 33.3% 0.0% 0.0% 33.3% 33.3% 7.4 0.0 0.0
Eric Gordon 45.0% 53.0% 25.0% 75.4% 48.6% 54.9% 21.7 6.2 10.1
Xavier Henry 39.5% 39.3% 41.2% 61.2% 41.0% 45.0% 14.4 1.1 5.4
Jarrett Jack 45.6% 48.2% 34.8% 87.2% 49.0% 54.0% 18.3 3.5 4.6
Carldell Johnson 31.4% 35.0% 26.7% 33.3% 37.1% 37.2% 14.1 6.1 1.2
Trey Johnson 57.1% 57.1% 0.0% 100.0% 57.1% 64.8% 11.0 0.0 3.9
Chris Johnson 50.0% 50.0% 0.0% 71.4% 50.0% 54.6% 10.5 0.0 4.1
Solomon Jones 43.4% 43.4% 0.0% 83.3% 43.4% 50.1% 13.0 0.0 4.4
Chris Kaman 44.6% 44.6% 0.0% 78.5% 44.6% 47.8% 20.9 0.0 3.7
Carl Landry 50.3% 50.7% 0.0% 79.9% 50.3% 57.7% 17.4 0.1 8.8
Emeka Okafor 53.3% 53.3% 0.0% 51.4% 53.3% 53.9% 13.2 0.0 4.5
Donald Sloan 35.7% 41.7% 0.0% 50.0% 35.7% 38.1% 16.4 2.3 4.7
Jason Smith 52.0% 53.1% 11.1% 70.2% 52.2% 53.7% 17.6 0.5 2.4
DaJuan Summers 43.1% 46.9% 31.2% 77.8% 46.9% 49.3% 14.9 3.7 2.1
Lance Thomas 45.7% 46.0% 0.0% 83.9% 45.7% 54.4% 9.7 0.1 4.7
Greivis Vasquez 43.0% 46.9% 31.9% 82.1% 47.1% 51.3% 14.7 3.8 3.3
Darryl Watkins 50.0% 50.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0% 52.5% 6.9 0.0 8.8
  WP48 WINS PTS DRB ORB TRB AST TO BLK STL PF
NOR 0.137 25.5 89.6 30.2 11.0 41.1 20.7 15.5 4.8 7.4 20.1
AVG 0.500 33.0 96.3 30.8 11.4 42.2 21.0 14.6 5.1 7.7 19.6
OPP 0.863 40.5 93.4 28.9 11.1 40.0 20.9 13.9 5.8 7.9 18.7
AVGOPP 0.500 33.0 96.3 30.8 11.4 42.2 21.0 14.6 5.1 7.7 19.6
  FG% 2FG% 3FG% FT% eFG% TS% FGA 3FGA FTA
NOR 45.1% 47.2% 33.3% 75.7% 47.6% 51.7% 77.3 11.8 21.2
AVG 44.8% 47.7% 34.9% 75.2% 48.7% 52.7% 81.4 18.4 22.5

Wins Produced
Expected* Actual Forecast**
25.5-40.5 21-45 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?