Thanks to Bowiac posting about it, I have taken to looking at RPM a bit and it seems interesting:
http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM
Some things are amusing:
Celtics have 2 of the 12 best centers in the league (KO, Zeller 10/12)
Celtics have 2 of the top 9 PF in the league (Sully, Wright 5/9) Kevin Loves ranks 12 btw, so we have 2 guys better than Love.
Smart grades out as our best PG (24, Nelson is 36 Rondo the Mav surprisingly at 31)
Our SG do not show up in the top 50.
The most surprising given his scoring is that Jeff Green grades out at 52 among small forwards, not overall.
The outcomes look very strange, but I can't say wrong. Green has been putting up big numbers, but they look bigger in the box score than when you watch the games.
I'm going to keep looking at this stat because it is the first stat I have found that fits my criteria of being counter intuitive yet plausible.
http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM
Some things are amusing:
Celtics have 2 of the 12 best centers in the league (KO, Zeller 10/12)
Celtics have 2 of the top 9 PF in the league (Sully, Wright 5/9) Kevin Loves ranks 12 btw, so we have 2 guys better than Love.
Smart grades out as our best PG (24, Nelson is 36 Rondo the Mav surprisingly at 31)
Our SG do not show up in the top 50.
The most surprising given his scoring is that Jeff Green grades out at 52 among small forwards, not overall.
The outcomes look very strange, but I can't say wrong. Green has been putting up big numbers, but they look bigger in the box score than when you watch the games.
I'm going to keep looking at this stat because it is the first stat I have found that fits my criteria of being counter intuitive yet plausible.