Second in line for analysis is Starcrow Trail Blazers (
(173499)). His starting five are pretty much on same level, especially position 1-3. I'm still waiting for his players' skills if he will be so kind and send it to me, but in the meantime analysis gave plenty of answers too.
First table's name is »Team %«3p (3 pointers): Out of team's 3 pointers, how many were attempted by position
2P (Jump shots): Out of team's Jump shots, how many were attempted by position
IS (Inside shots): Out of team's Inside shots, how many were attempted by position
DR (Layups): Out of team's layups, how many were attempted by position
PA( Pass attempts (not assists!)): Out of team's pass attempts, how many were attempted by position
%SH: % of how many possessions each of five positions used for a shot
%PA: % of hos many possessions each of five position used for a pass attempt
Example: Out of 138 Jump shots taken by whole team, 19% were taken by PG, 30 % by SG etc.
POS 3P 2P IS DR PA %SH %PA
PG 27 19 0 26 35 23 35
SG 25 30 1 42 22 28 22
SF 39 20 9 19 15 23 15
PF 7 12 38 12 12 14 12
C 3 12 50 2 15 13 15
I found an interesting twist here. PG, SG and SF are using same % of team possessions for shots (23, 28 and 23 respectively), but the distribution of types of shots is quite different.
If you compare SG and SF, you see SG is shooting way less 3P than SF. Out of 100 shots, SG takes only 25 shots while SF takes 39 3P shots out of 100. This probably means SG has low JR for his position and SF has a high JR for his position. Furthermore, his SG is responsible for almost half of team's shots for driving, so we have a great example of »inside« SG for Motion who can't be guarded by a player with great OD and bad ID. I can't wait to see the skills!
PF and C don't have a great role here; out of 100 possessions, they are shooting the ball 27% combined.
2nd table is »Individual %« and shows what each position has been doing in his possessoins (it takes into account shot+passes attempts)
3p (3 pointers): Out of individual's shot+pass attempts, how many 3 pointers were attempted by position
2P (Jump shots): Out of individual's shot+pass attempts, how many Jump shots were attempted by position
IS (Inside shots): Out of individual's shot+pass attempts, how many Inside shots were attempted by position
DR (Layups): Out of individual's shot+pass attempts, how many Layups were attempted by position
PA( Pass attempts (not assists!)): Out of individual's shot+pass attempts, how many passes were attempted by position
Example: Out of 100 shot+pass attempts taken by PG, he took 36% of 3p attempts, 24% of 2p attempts, 4% of IS attempts, 12% of DR attempts and 24% of pass attempts.
POS 3P 2P IS DR PA
PG 20 35 0 11 34
SG 19 42 1 18 21
SF 35 33 4 10 18
PF 10 33 25 10 23
C 4 33 33 2 29
This table shows us player's preference, a.k.a. what does he like to do in offense. In previous table we saw SG was responsible for almost half of team's Driving shots, but this table tells us Driving isn't preferred choice of the team – it's rather jump shot with exception of SF who likes to shoot 3P more than 2P.
So we haven't still find either a Pass-first PG or Driving guard, or even a dominant PF for Motion, but we are getting there.
Starcrow Trail Blazers features PG and SG, much more different than RakBa's; Blazers' PG and SG are not so outside oriented and prefer their Jump Shot to Jump range. SF is a different story. It's also interesting PF and C have more tendency for passing than SF and SG. Speaking of that, I think this team is a bit low on Offensive Flow and could use more passing on their SG and SF.
I think this analysis will also show passing on either PF or C is very important for Motion.
Last edited by Koperboy at 3/19/2012 9:11:58 AM