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Originally Posted by BillLaimbeer When you are ranking these teams, why are you using Total Minutes instead of Minutes Per Game? These rankings don't make sense because teams played a different number of games. |
Numbers are for regular seasons only, so everybody has the opportunity for 82 per. And, I wanted to even up across the number of games played. If a player averaged 25 MPG, but only played ten games, I didn't want to show him as playing a lot over the course of a season or seasons. I was looking for long term effects.
It does mean that having a player hurt shows up as fewer minutes. (See Kobe in 01 who averaged 40 MPG but only played in 60 some.) But, that still seems o.k. to me for this kind of comparison. Injured players still get rest, even if it is enforced. Maybe Kobe played better in the playoffs because he got to take a quarter of the season off, even though he played heavy minutes in some games.