Season ending stats

[LVJeff]

FYI and for discussion. Here are some team season ending stat averages. Middle row is losses. Bottom row is wins. Interesting that 3 pt fg% and offensive/total rebound averages are marginally worse in the wins. For me, these stats support the idea that the critical difference in wins vs losses is fg%, ft%, assists, turnovers, and of course points scored. On the defensive side, throw in steals as being significantly different in wins vs losses. These are the stats that are most glaringly different.

Stat fg% 3 fg% ft% off rb def rb tot reb pfouls assis tover _blck stls_ pts
Loss 0.35 0.25 0.67 17.07 25.50 42.57 20.57 10.07 17.43 3.86 6.78 58.00
Wins 0.45 0.24 0.72 13.68 26.55 40.23 14.50 15.64 15.18 4.36 9.32 70.45

 

[DR2]

On the flip side is the opponents' averages during wins and losses, which can be just as interesting with some weird anomalies like with the 3pt shooting, though the difference is very slight. I would discount the rebounding stat a bit because that is not uncommon in games where, in this case, you are shooting 10% better and have fewer chances for offensive rebounds. Note that it is indeed the ORs that explain the discrepancy here, as the LVs had more DRs per game in their wins. The huge steals, assists and PFs differences explain a lot about what happened in wins and losses.