Re: "Playoff Casualties"- by the numbers

[Tammo29@xxxxxxx]

"Walker had a good series against the Pacers so I'm surprised the Net showing 

dropped his rating so far. Why do you think that is?..."

  My guess would be because although Antoine shot the ball well against the 
Pacers, he didn't really do anything else well in that series...and it didn't 
help that he shot 33% from the free throw line.
So, when his numbers from both series were added up his extremely poor 
shooting from the Nets series negated his good shooting from the Pacers series and 
his good rebounding from the Nets series was negated by his poor rebounding in 
the Pacers series...etc, etc.

Every ratings system I've ever come across uses a combination of all the 
major statistical categories plus shooting percentages in some form to come up 
with their ratings system.
Schaller's numbers (http://schallertpr.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=189604)
seem to be in line with Doug's Tendex numbers for the team 
(http://home.rmi.net/~doug/playoffs/BostonCeltics.html)
  and the leagues effeciency numbers. 


TAM