Today's Score

Happy Bday Rob (12/29)

Click here for video from last year's party...

No Room At the Inn

So on Monday I arrived at 11:30.  Eager to run around and work off 10 days worth of Tofurky and Green Bean Casserole.  Lo and Behold I was the 9th guy.  That's never even come close to happening before.  But, we wrangled everyone together and started playing and even though I wasn't in until the 2nd game, I was already playing by 11:50.

A good amount of games today, I think I only missed recording the results of a couple.  All in all, 16 games in the stats for today.

Here are today's wins and losses:

The avg teammate % in the right column of the above chart indicates the average cumulative winning percentage of all your teammates today.  However, until I've recorded 20 games for any particular player, I normalize your percentage at 50%.  So, this stat is gonna be a little up and down until more games are played.  But, as you can see, Alvin, who was 1-3, got boned because the average historic winning % of all his teammates today was 35%.  No wonder he went home early.  On the other hand, Mike's teammates historic winning % was over 60% today, which is huge.  That means (on average), all his teammates today typically win 60% of the time (hint: he played with Marc & Kenny a lot).

Here are the cumulative wins and losses:

ThunderBlake Strikes Again

Because nobody asked...

I watch a Metric Fuck-Ton of NBA games.

Here are the teams I like to watch the most...
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Orlando (love D Howard, Jameer and now also JRich)
Miami (you have to watch them)
Chicago (love D Rose)
Phoenix (If I was unmarried and gay, I'd marry Steve Nash)
Dallas (Dirk & JET & Dirk & JET - get Barea out of there)
Denver (they're talented and every one of them is off his nut)
Portland (need Brandon at 100%)
LAL (hate Kobe, but he's awesome to watch, love Pau)
GS (no one is more fun to watch than Monta Ellis)

Good teams I don't rush to watch:
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San Antonio (whiners and fakers - although I do like Tony Parker's game)
Boston (don't like Garnett, can't stand Big Baby or Lil Nate, but I do love Rondo)
Utah & Atlanta (boring and sleep inducing)

Special mention - guys on crappy teams worth watching just for them:
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Blake Griffin - HOLY CRAP!
Kevin Love - should be an all-star - leads rebounding by 20% over next guy (D Howard)

Monta Ellis is so cool

I'm always amazed how many shots Dave takes/makes without looking at or facing the basket.  Maybe he learned it from one of my fav NBA players, Monta...

Time Capsule - Who played 2 years Ago

Last time I kept the stats for the blog was the fall of 2008.

I kept records during 24 sessions.  Here are the folks who came at least 5 times (>20%).

Two years and it's amazingly similar.  Other than Bob Finch having health issues (that's the Bob in the chart, NOT Accu-Bob) and Jason not coming around anymore, almost everyone else high on the list plays a lot now, along with some new additions that play frequently like: Marc, Kenny, Cy, Dave & Brandon to name a few.

Crazy J R Smith 360 Lay-Up

Player Profiles - #1 in a Series

Lefty  

Marital Status - Better check with his wife

Kids - (2) So nice and well-adjusted you'd bet they were adopted

Age - Not a day over 23
 
Weight - Well, Zach can't move him out of the post

Shoots - Left-handed (duh) 

Known For - Shooting & Smoking & Drinking & a Big Smile

3 Point Percentage - More than most

Assists - Do you mean incoming or outgoing?

Favorite Restaurant - Noodle Boat

Favorite NBA Player - Michael Redd (why do you think Steve's shot looks like his?)

Favorite all-time NBA player - Paul Mokeski (Don't ask why, that's between Steve and Paul)

How he calls a foul - "Stay here"

Other interests - Ask Steve to serenade you with his guitar and his Rockabilly voice

Why we like him - He's a good guy

Streaks

Here are the longest winning & losing streaks for each individual player.  Streaks can obviously stretch over more than one day.  If I wasn't lazy, I would have indicated whether the streak was current.  There's always next time.

The Game Winning Shot

This is easily the most corrupted/corruptable stat I generate, because I only keep who made the GWS, I don't track HOW MANY shots they missed before they made the GWS.  There are certainly guys going for the glory who'll heave up any shot they see when it's game-point.  So, this isn't about your shooting % when the game is on the line, simply who made the GWS.

Of course, our leader, Brandon, doesn't fall into the "heave it up" category, as a matter of fact, I don't know that I've seen him miss a shot when the game was on the line.

Below is the chart, it's a little hard to read at first glance.  I haven't been able to record the GWS for each game, so the "games" and "wins" categories don't sync up with the overall totals.  I've got the GWS in 41 of the 54 games played so far.

The first column after your name is GWS made.  Next is games played (where I recorded the GWS), then the % of those games where you hit the GWS.  After that, I show your Wins (where I recorded the GWS) and the % of your wins where you made the GWS.

The reason I do both those comparisons is that you can't make the GWS in a game that your team did not win.  So, for example, Dave has made 3 GWS in 14 games played thus he made the GWS in 21% of the games he played.  However, he only won 8 of those games, so he made the GWS in 38% (3/8) of the games his team won.

Who's Playing

Here's the attendance for the 5 sessions so far.  I keep M/W/F numbers so you can easily see if there are certain days people show up.

That way, if your arch-nemesis is likely to play, you can either bail like a wussy or show up and posterize him.

As you can see, after only 5 days only two of us (Erik & myself) have showed every time.  And only 9 of the 40 have showed at least half the time.  That's why it's hard to predict how many guys are gonna show.  More than half of the 40 have only played once of the possible 5 days.

They need Cy in the Western Conference

The top 3 vote getters at Center for the Western Conf in the All-Star game are:


1. Yao Ming - 5 games played
2. Andrew Bynum - 3 games played
3. Brendan Haywood - Doesn't even start on his own team

Updated Fri Stats

Got a couple of games of data updated from Friday.  Keep in mind that I'll take all the help I can get when there are three courts.  I can easily get all the games with two courts, but three is almost impossible.

However, if you help, the nature of my spreadsheets means that it is only useful if you can tell me every player from both teams and who won (and who made the GWS, if you can remember).  Just telling me that you were 4-1 or that a certain team won 3 in a row doesn't help because of the way I keep everything organized and balanced to make my spreadsheet formulas work.  I need to know all 8 players.

Anyway, here are Friday's W/L, the cums have also been updated.

Amazingly, in the 5 days I've kept stats, there have been 40 different players who have showed up.

I wish some of you prickwads would show up on Mondays or Wednesdays, too.

Tandems

Here are the stats for tandems so far.  Obviously there's not a lot of data so I limited it to guys who have played together at least 5 times...

 

So, the chart indicates each time any combo of two players play together, their total games, wins and losses, and win %.  So, Erik & Kenny have played together 9 times and never lost.

Strangely, Brad & Steve have played together 6 times and never won.

Brandon is undefeated with everyone, 'cause he's undefeated.


Marc & Kenny are 13-1 together and yet Marc is 3-4 without Kenny and Kenny is 3-7 without Marc.  How's that for playing well together?  Scientists would call it symbiosis.

Let the smack talk begin.