Re: Points per shot

[Francis Hsu <francis@ai.mit.edu>]

Thanks for enlightening me.  I was thinking that they counted the attempt
even if the shooter is fouled.  Now that I know otherwise, I withdraw my
argument for PPS as being a better measurement than FG %.

Francis

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:24:52PM -0400, Jim Meninno wrote:
> The problem with points per shot is that it doesn't count missed attempts
> where the shooter is fouled.  If a guy gets fouled and hits two free throws
> he's got 2 points on zero shots.  What does that make his rating?  This is why
> the guys who do best on this rating are the ones who get to the line a lot.
> Their "attempts" are artificially low.
> 
> Jim