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- From: marty@Shiva.COM (Marty Del Vecchio)
- Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
- Subject: Re: 3 POINT SHOOTERS? Who are they?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.181324.19700@Shiva.COM>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:13:24 GMT
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- In article <1k6vaqINNho5@gap.caltech.edu> eastout@ugcs.caltech.edu (Eric A Stout) writes:
- >In article <82064@hydra.gatech.EDU> (Jeffrey N. Burch) writes:
- >>From today's papers...
- >>
- >>NCAA 3 Point Leaders (by percentage)
- >>---------------------------------------------
- >>Gibson, UNLV 30-53 56.6%
- >>Davis, Middle Tenn 22-40 55.0%
- >>Anderson, Kent 29-53 54.7%
- >>Capers, Arizona St 20-37 54.1%
- >>Peinton, East Tenn 22-41 53.7%
- >>Witman, W Michigan 42-79 53.2%
- >>McCaffrey, Vandy 35-66 53.0%
- >>Ford, Kentucky 35-66 53.0%
- >>Mills, Arizona 25-48 52.1%
- >>Ryder, Siena 23-45 51.1%
- >>
- >
- >Okay, I'm going to put my nerd hat on for a minute here. Do these numbers look
- >funny to any of the economists out there? I'm not sure I can make my point
- >coherent here, but it looks to me like these guys should be shooting a consid-
- >erably larger number of threes than they are right now. Gibson, for example,
- >is averaging 1.70 points every time he throws up a three point shot. Now, I
- >happen to know that UNLV doesn't average 1.70 points/shot overall, because that
- >would be they were hitting about 85% of their two-pointers (discount free
- >throws from this admittedly suspect analysis). So why doesn't Gibson shoot
- >more? Specifically, why doesn't he shoot enough three-pointers such that his
- >average points/shot are the same as the team average? What I mean by that is,
- >presumably as he started shooting more, his percentage would fall at some rate
- >proportional to the number of shots he jacks up, assuming that he currently
- >takes only the best available shots. But until his points/shot fall to the
- >team average points per shot, the team continues to enjoy a marginal profit
- >from Gibson jacking up the three. So, what it suggests to me when guys are
- >shooting extraordinary percentages (the same reasoning applies to two point
- >shots, really) is that THEY JUST AREN'T SHOOTING ENOUGH!
- >But I'm an engineer, not an economist or a college basketball coach...
- >
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- Maybe it has something to do with the difficulty in getting a good 3-point
- shot off. Maybe there are only 5 good shots a game available to these
- players. Or I guess their coaches have just imposed quotas on them...
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