Central
Team |
W |
L |
Pct |
Conf W |
Conf L |
Pct |
Diff |
Three Star Ego Strokers |
9 |
3 |
75.00% |
16 |
10 |
61.54% |
13.46% |
KT's Nowitzki Loneriders |
8 |
4 |
66.67% |
10 |
16 |
38.46% |
28.21% |
KAJ33+3's |
6 |
6 |
50.00% |
15 |
11 |
57.69% |
-7.69% |
DurantsDynamicDozen |
6 |
6 |
50.00% |
15 |
11 |
57.69% |
-7.69% |
Don't Call It A Comeback |
4 |
8 |
33.33% |
16 |
10 |
61.54% |
-28.21% |
Tsunami Crew |
4 |
8 |
33.33% |
5 |
21 |
19.23% |
14.10% |
|
37 |
35 |
51.39% |
|
|
|
|
Team |
PPG |
PPG A |
Diff |
efg |
efg A |
diff |
Three Star Ego Strokers |
112.3 |
107.8 |
4.4 |
55.27% |
51.57% |
3.71% |
KT's Nowitzki Loneriders |
125.7 |
122.7 |
3.0 |
55.88% |
54.05% |
1.83% |
KAJ33+3's |
122.0 |
119.0 |
3.0 |
57.19% |
52.44% |
4.75% |
DurantsDynamicDozen |
124.3 |
123.5 |
0.8 |
57.82% |
53.07% |
4.75% |
Don't Call It A Comeback |
116.9 |
120.1 |
-3.2 |
53.90% |
50.73% |
3.17% |
Tsunami Crew |
112.8 |
119.3 |
-6.5 |
50.32% |
54.17% |
-3.85% |
Key story lines:
1. Did I really say this: “the next 12 games will give a good read on how good this team could have been had DH not screwed it by drafting it in the Central.” BEFORE Kat tied for the 2nd best record in the entire league at 8-4 against the West?
2. Was it just dumb luck or my team’s switch to HC that netted me a league best 9-3 record against the West?
3. Great shooting continues for both Badja and DH but only nets them 6-6 each
4. WTF is going on with sly’s team? 4-8 NFW!
5. Improvement for banditone, but only translates to 4-8
Katernberg: the switch to uptempo explains some of this improvement but Kat’s matchup advantages against the West also helped fuel his insane improvement over these 12 games: the only team in the division with a PPG improvement and one of only two that had an increase in efg: ppg from 118.2 to 125.7 (+7.5ppg); efg from 53.66% to 55.88% (+2.22%); also went from a -2.7ppg differential to +3.0 and from -2.15% in efg difference to +1.83. Great improvement Kat, but due to the relative strength of the division and the conference I have to slot this team as still being outside of the playoff race.
Natenoy: I’ll take 9-3, there were a lot of close games though and I got held below 100 points in all three losses. 6-0 at home but 3 of the 6 were by a combined 10 points, so I did have some good luck going for me. It’s difficult to discern the impact of switching from uptempo to HC at this point since the games were against a somewhat different population of teams. For me possessions dropped by 11.2; ppg by 14.6; FGM by 5.0 and FGA by 6.4; FTM by 4.0 and FTA by 6.0; the good news was that turnovers went down by 2.1 and fouls by 3.5 but efg also dropped by 1.88%, which isn’t bad considering the better D in the West.
A MAJOR concern I have is that my tov% in uptempo was 16.78%, and my tov% in HC for the 12 games was 16.55%, NOT the drastic improvement I was hoping for and perhaps the individual penalty is not hurting me like I thought it was. Again, not the same population of teams, but my opponents actually scored 15.5 fewer points per game and my differential climbed from +3.5 to +4.4 and the bottom line was a league best 9-3. So in short, HC dropped my numbers across the board but at least for 12 games it somehow made my team better. This team projects to continue to be a playoff contender.
Badja and DH had results very similar to felonius and ash in the Atlantic. Badja continued to be one of the best shooting teams in the league even though his efg dropped by 2.12%, from an off-the-chart 59.31% to a still insane 57.19% and even though his ppg dropped by 10.8ppg he held opponents to 11.6 fewer ppg. Both he and DH on paper should have fared better than 6-6, DH actually saw his efg% increase from 55.92% to one-up on badja at 57.82%, the problem for DH was that the West actually somehow scored MORE ppg than what he had been giving up in the East with a slight increase from 123.0 to 123.5. With their respective shooting neither of these guys will be exiting the playoff chase anytime soon and both have as good as chance as sly and me to win the division.
Sly: Went 4-8 and the numbers were FAR worse than that. PPG dropped by 11.1 from 128.0 to 116.9 while opponents only dropped from 121.8 to 120.1, meaning sly went from +6.2ppg to -3.2ppg, a -9.4ppg swing. Efg also dropped by a conference worst 3.24% from 57.14% down to 53.90%. Not really sure WTF is going on here, sometimes the Sim does things that defy logic and this may be one of those times. However, I think I can speak for both badja and DH along with myself in stating that we all still fear this team and it is pretty likely to recoup some of this underperformance in the near future, we just all are hoping it comes against the other two of the three of us.
Banditone: The bright side of this 4-8 showing was that this team went from -10.9ppg to only -6.5ppg in scoring differential. Banditone is in all-out spoiler mode at this point, and again the four contenders all are hoping that his remaining wins in the division come at the expense of the other three.
6/14/2013 3:43 AM (edited)