Look how Bucks played last year with Middleton in and out. For example Middleton and Bayless in Bucks play 5 ppg better than average. Bayless in and Middleton out 9 ppg worse than average. I do not know what he does but he impacts the game! These numbers are adjusted for strength of opponents faced.
| Bayless | Plumlee | Middleton | Carter-Will | Pachulia | Dudley | Antetokounm | Ilyasova | Mayo | Knight | |
| Middleton and other in | 5 950m | -2 105m | 6 2610m | 9 817m | 14 1352m | 7 1014m | 5 1597m | 8 1003m | 9 690m | 6 903m |
| Middleton out and other in | -9 888m | -17 101m | dnp | -3 132m | -13 507m | -6 813m | -7 1144m | -15 459m | -10 1163m | -10 785m |
| Middleton in and other out | 6 1660m | 6 2505m | dnp | 5 1793m | -3 1258m | 5 1596m | 7 1013m | 5 1608m | 5 1920m | 6 1707m |
| Middleton out and other out | -11 889m | -11 1674m | -19 529m | -10 1566m | -12 1309m | -11 1674m | -11 1674m | -10 1079m | -11 1674m | -12 511m |
Stumbled on this site and I wanted to reinforce to you that it’s an exceptional one.
I’m a huge basketball fan (and played at a high level before college) and rising senior studying OR at Georgia Tech. I studied out of a book of yours as well for an Optimization class.
Wanted to comment on this post because Kris Middleton is a great example of a player whose contributions are brought to light by using analytics techniques. Great payoff for him this summer. I look forward to reading more of your work.
Yatharth
Comment by Yatharth Dubey — July 9, 2015 @ 2:44 am