After the huge sample size of 8 games, I can't wait for the Rockets parade after they win the trophy. Serious note, some interesting stat lines from this early point in the season: Overall Team:
Talk about fail, SOS: 17th in the league ORTG: 8th DRTG: 2nd Pace: 9th Dwight and Harden are both in the top 4 in terms of net rating with Dwight leading the league with 24.9 and Harden 4th with 20.4 In terms of PIE (Player Impact estimate) Harden is 4th in the league behind Brow, Cousins, and Curry. Harden's defensive rating is a 96 currently (best before and outside of rookie year was a 105). His DRPM is a 2.6 so far (best before outside of rookie year was a 0)
Where do you get the SOS stat and how is it calculated? I would have thought you'd need more data on how the teams are performing before you could really determine stength of the opponents faced. I'm surprised at the 17th rank on SOS. I would have thought our schedule is one of the easiest so far.
Purely in terms of total winning % of opponents the Hollinger rankings have us at 5th easiest sched. I too would be really surprised if by any possible metric we were 17th. The defensive rating is absolutely glee-inducing, and I hope we can hold onto it when the schedule normalizes. The offense can only get better as Harden irons out his shooting slump.
Appears SOS is from Basketball reference. Sagarin has the SOS as 14. Golden State, Spurs, Miami are good teams and Boston is 3-4 with a difficult schedule. Middle of the road seems right.
So you said Harden's DRPM is 2.6, is that the same scale ESPN is using? If yes.....that means Harden now is about 10 times better in defense than Lin - whose the best Laker in terms of defense?
It appears to use a different formula, because Jeremy Lin's formula according to bballreference is an outstanding -4.0
bballreference uses box score stats to estimate +/-. XRAPM and ESPN's real plus minus to my knowledge use box score stats to help adjust raw plus minuis data. I would not put too much faith on bballreference's DBPM stats. They may end up being good...I just don't know, but I am skeptical of how well box score stats relat to plus minus.
