Comments on: Best and Worst Scorers in the NBA East http://courtsideanalyst.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/best-and-worst-scorers-in-the-nba-east/ EVIDENTIARY SPORTS ANALYSIS Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Blake http://courtsideanalyst.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/best-and-worst-scorers-in-the-nba-east/#comment-5350 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:57:23 +0000 http://courtsideanalyst.wordpress.com/?p=2448#comment-5350 I really like this stat, you should implement it more. How exactly do you calculate it? Do you use Hoopdata’s stats?

]]> By: Greyberger http://courtsideanalyst.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/best-and-worst-scorers-in-the-nba-east/#comment-5346 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:42:21 +0000 http://courtsideanalyst.wordpress.com/?p=2448#comment-5346 Great post. But you should use a different coefficient than .50. When you factor all the ‘extra’ free throws from technicals, flagrants, and-ones and three-point attempts, only one out of 2.27 free throws most years end in a defensive rebounding opportunity.

For this reason .44 is usually used to estimate the possession cost of FGA relative to FTA. TS% uses the .44 coefficient and (FGA + FTA*.44) is sometimes called True Shooting Attempts.

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