Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The most efficient stat collectors in UK history

Since Anthony Davis is filling up the stat sheet every night, I wanted to see what the best statistical seasons were.  I calculated this one by simply adding all the positive stats (points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocked shots) and dividing by minutes played.  

Some issues here:
1) There are more advanced measures out there (taking into account pace, etc.)
2) Before 1979-80, no steals or blocked shots stats are available
3) Before 1962, no minutes played data are available


So we'll have to look at it by era.


Since 1980:

1) Demarcus Cousins 2009-10 = 1.223 stats per minute.  29th best scoring year in UK history and 8th best rebounding.

2) Jamal Mashburn 1992-93 = 1.071 per minute.  8th best scoring year in UK history.


3) Jamal Mashburn 1991-92 = 1.010 per minute. 3rd best scoring year in UK history.


4) Randolph Morris 2006-07 = 1.006 per minute.  9th best blocked shots year in UK history.

5) Anthony Davis 2011-12 = 0.996 per minute.  Already the #1 shot blocking season in UK history.

6) Kenny Walker 1984-85 = 0.993 per minute.  9th best scoring year in UK history.






1962-79:


1) Dan Issel 1969-70 = 1.299 per minute.  Top scoring season, 9th best rebounding season.  Achieved highest per-minute stat collecting rate without even having steals or blocked shots accounted for.


2) Dan Issel 1968-69 = 1.106 per minute.  4th best scoring, 6th best rebounding season.


3) Cotton Nash 1963-64 = 0.989 per minute.  13th in points, 22nd in rebounds.


4) Kevin Grevey 1974-75 = 0.974 per minute.  5th in points.


5) Jim Andrews 1971-72 = 0.971 per minute.  22nd in points, 24th in rebounds.






Prior to 1962:

Because there are no data for minutes played, I won't bother to list these numerically.  But the top three, in some order, would be:

Bill Spivey 1950-51
Cliff Hagan 1951-52
Cliff Hagan 1953-54

Among other websites consulted, one of my main sources for this and many other posts is the peerless UK resource (and probably the best site of its kind for any sports team) known as "The Kentucky Basketball Statistics Project" operated by Jon Scott.  Available at http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/statistics.html 

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