Bench production observations

Soo first of all, I never EVER thought I gonna be starting a thread on here, but today I was bored and had some spare time. Have to add, that I'm NOT an expert stats guy and never had stat courses after the basic ones

Well to the topic now..
Recently there were some guys questioning our bench production to the point where comments were made like, ''our bench suxx'' ''in the po's they are gonna be our reason of fail!!!'' etc.

To me, that was clearly not the case, and I thought how can I measure the bench production beyond the basic +/- and ppg/rpg stats. I can tell I am still working on that :grin:

But in the meantime I tried to at least have some better ways to look into the stats to be able to at least compare the production to an extent.

These tables are, what I came up with..I am gonna post our Rockets and the Clippers for comparison (I have also the same stat allocation table for the Thunder and the Spurs being our biggest rivals in the West, if there is a positive reaction to this one I will post them too.)



so as you can see I focused solely on the bench and compare them to the last 15 opponents we faced. Figures in red just mean, that we were worse in that regard (or in the case of secs/mins played had less) than the other team.

The Wins/Losses stuff is some conclusion I took out of the data. If the bench +/- simulated to 100 minutes (total for the whole bench) has a greater value either on the + side for wins or on the negative side in losses COMPARED to the win/loss margin of the final score I considered this the reason for a win/loss.

The bold framed wins/losses are such games btw.

It's similar with the 'Wins despite bench playing bad' where if the bench simulated +/- is greater in the - than the difference in the final score I added those scores.

Notable: Asik didn't play in 3 of those 15 games and 2 of those 3 games were wins despite a bad bench.

Now on to the Clippers..



as you can see contrary to the common belief, we seem to hold our ground in bench production compared to the clipps. Of course, there has to be noted, that Reddick isn't playing and Crawford missed 3 games fully and had to leave 2 earlier. On the other hand injuries are part of the business (as we had our share with Asik, Lin seems to have had some problems and Parsons being ill so Ham had to start once)

Whats really intriguing is, that they had 4 losses BECAUSE of their bench, and those were all before Crawfords injury.

Like I said above I have also tables for the Spurs and OKC (which also are interesting I think) but its up to you if there is enough interest there to post them.

I also would be open to extent the tables with other stats like assists, t/o's, steals blocks etc.

For now I would conclude, that with the addition of Ham and the reemergence of Asik only Lin's play is left to improve (he was better in his last 2 I think tho). The bench wasn't more of a letdown, as it is for other contenders (I can assure you that since I also saw the tables for the Spurs and OKC)

So let the bashing begin

 

edit: just saw, that it should be 3 losses by the Clippers bench not 4 sorry for that..

 

What a well thought, telling and intelligent response..guess its reflecting your iq too thanks for the input