Warning: This is math-intensive... So as promised, here is the thread I thought as I examined the 5-man units at 82games.com, how could I correlate winning with which player was out on the court? So I came up with this idea: plot the winning percentage against the players, using "+1" as the...

At 82games.com, they have the Wolves 5-man units and the stats for each unit. In the first table, at the far right, they have the "win percentage" for the unit. A "win" occurred when the unit outscored its opponents, and a "loss" occurred when the unit was outscored by its...

stopnpop over at canis hoopus had a great breakdown of the "progress" of the team today. Basically he concluded that individual players such as Al, Telfair, etc, showed improvement, but the team as a whole did not. Despite the increased winning percentage, most of the other statistics showed...