Somehow, they define your chance of getting a rebound if the ball comes
out near you.
So who grabs more of the rebounds, the highest percentage of rebounds,
when they're close by where the ball comes off?
And the answer is DeAndre Jordan, 73%.
Now well, Kawhi Leonard 73% also.
But some guys like Noel need some work.
When he has a chance at the rebound he's only getting 52% of
them compared to DeAndre Jordan.
Of course a lot of rebounding skill is being in the spot where you have a chance
to get it.
And I don't think that, well you could see when we look at how many rebound chances
per game means the guy's in the right spot.
But you can probably do a lot analyzing this.
So then efficiency summarizes sort of all the shooting and
does the expected field goal percentage.
Okay then, speed, who runs the most per 48 minutes?
And my answer to that would be, who cares?
So in other words, if I look at the amount for 48 minutes.
Well, the most anyone runs is 3.6 miles per 48 minutes,
and there just isn't much variation.
And you might use this to measure workload to see if you player, look at the total
distance they traveled during the game and maybe the acceleration.
And then try and figure out if you need the rest because than might be a better
measure of effort that minutes playing.
But I'm really not sure what to do with this.
But I mean really advance stats people like Kirk Goldsberry and his group at
Harvard who have access to really where the ball is on every possession.
And basically, where each player is and how they move around.
Have really been able to do some interesting things with this, but
the general public doesn't have that much data on this.
But I hope you'll explore the SportVU data, and
my guess is every year they'll put more of it on NBA.com.
And we'll get to see more.