Just for the sake of argument
My best player (a trainee) does (almost) never play as starter. He plays rotation twice a week and between garbage-time and foul-problems he gets more than 48 minutes.
I don't know how you manage this. My best players start 1 game and sub in the other. That's because I try to train 6 players a week. If I were training 5, they could start both games.
It makes no sense to me that you wouldn't start your best player at least one game. In most cases, if he plays rotation in the other one, he will get 48 minutes for the week. This translates in close to 25 minutes per game.
Why do you rescale? In the stats, there should be a minimum number of minutes played. Among 500 minutes played (for examples) the stats in that 1 minute will count as much as those in any other minute. I don't really follow you here...
There is no such things as "stats per minute" in basketball. What is calculated is "stats per 48 minutes". Either way, it is essentially the same -- you divide the totals by the number of minutes, and then multiply by 48.
The thing is, the more a player plays, the more his involvement tends to even out in a game. I don't see a point in having 10-mpg players on top of the rankings just because they were lucky to get a couple of shots for their time on the field.
After all, the ranking are meaningful as they are -- the guys on top are the ones that provide the most production for their teams. This is
exactly what the stats are expected to represent.
OTOH, basketball is a team game. So I don't see why you worry about rotating your players and not having them in the rankings. There are plenty of examples of mediocre players filling up the stat sheets on mediocre teams
I agree that all sort of stats can be implemented, and the game stands to improve in this department: per-48 stats, sortable team stats, various percentages, etc. There are pretty good criteria about how a player qualifies to be listed in these (certain # of games played, certain # of shots taken, etc.)
But I don't think this is essential at this point, and the per-game statistics are always the ones that count the most.
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