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and the Winner of the Shaq Jersey is!

by Seth Pollack on Apr 17, 2008 1:36 PM MDT in Contests Comment 11 comments

Remember our little contest to guess the statistical impact of Shaq?

Here's the numbers at the time of the trade and for the entire season (remember that there were 52 games played pre-trade and 30 after).
The "final stat" is for the entire season:

	Pre-trade Stat:	Final Stat:	Differential:	Category Winner:	Comment:
PPG	109.4	110.1	+.7	AZSEAfan	Offense got even better..
OPG	103.3	105	+1.7	calphxfan	Defense got even worse..
FG%	49.2%	50.1%	+.9%	JSun	50.1 FG%! Wow!
OFG%	45%	45.7%	+.7%	Mazzou and Brian13	45.7 Opp FG% is 13th in the league
TREB Diff	-6	-2.4	+3.6	Turumbar	This is a HUGE improvement
Win%	70.8%	66.1%	-3.7%	calphxfan	At this point its all about the next 40 games...

And the Winner with a mere .15 variance in all his guesses versus the actual results is... KidZero!

Runner up with a .2 variance is Hawk42 and in third place is your's truly at .3. That's some pretty darn good estimating if I do say so myself!
Oh, and playing the role of Miami Heat was JSun at 4.9

Thanks everyone for playing and congrats to KidZero on winning the Shaq Jersey!

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what is the difference in stats

between the 1st 15 games and the last 15 ?
I'm guessing our defense in particular looks a lot more respectable during the latter.

by Pliny the Elder on Apr 17, 2008 1:59 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I'll let you sort that out :)

Here's the link to the game log stats:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/fc/tgl.cgi?team=PHO&year=2008

Phx - where Lakers Love doesn't happen

by Seth Pollack on Apr 17, 2008 2:23 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh man

winning two catagories and still not placing in the top three. where amazing happens.

by calphxfan on Apr 17, 2008 2:30 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

you're other guesses must have been way off!

good job on the ones you got!

by ZonaFlash on Apr 17, 2008 2:45 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Miami Heat?

I didn't ask to be traded.

I was just being optimistic and now I'm on the Heat?

4.9 isn't bad -- at the first check-in, I was in double digits.

Mmmmm ... Guinness

by JSun on Apr 17, 2008 2:33 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

thanks

whoa...didn't win one stat category, but I'll take it.

now, didn't i also have a tie breaker that said that the Suns will win the Championship?
Now that would be a nice prize!!!!

by kidzero on Apr 17, 2008 2:59 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Congrats KidZero

Great job!

by ZonaFlash on Apr 17, 2008 3:02 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Congrats!

I sent you an email to work out the details. Let me know if you don't get it.

Phx - where Monster Trucks happen

by Seth Pollack on Apr 17, 2008 3:08 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Voting

You didn't carry any states, but you took the popular vote. Good thing we don't use the electoral college!

'07-'08 Suns: It's clobberin' time!

by Hawk42 on Apr 18, 2008 11:31 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

2nd place prize!

Given how close the final score was, I think a 2nd place prize is in order. Maybe Suns hat or T-shirt for Hawk?

But you HAVE to promise to wear it to a game!

Phx - where Monster Trucks happen

by Seth Pollack on Apr 18, 2008 2:55 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Seconded!

by ZonaFlash on Apr 18, 2008 7:56 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

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