It is for this reason that charles is very opposed to doing away with the zone ratings... he wants there to be an absolute metric which shows how good a team you put on the court for that game.
However, in terms of understanding what happened in the game I'm coming up with a relativistic measurement which shows you how effective each position was against your opponent at that same position. So as the previous example that is given above, you could see that in most games their SF dominated opponents, but in this previous game your SF was more effective than theirs. I am thinking of showing actually 10 values.. which relate to the offensive efficancy at each position for either team.. so if you want to look at your defensive efficancy you look at your opponents offensive efficancy.
i've implemented version 1.0 and 2.0 of this... but i want to check it some more, run it by some people internally.. then we need to make the database and website work with the new ratings.. so its a little ways off still.. but i am working on it.
Edited 8/29/2007 8:13:10 AM by BB-Forrest