Question for Sugar

[dsfire]

Calculations on usage, offensive and defensive ratings, and Net points added for the season so far.  The data is sorted from highest to lowest by Net Points Added.

How does Buycks end up in the positive with offensive and defensive ratings below the team average?

Team offensive efficiency is not the same thing as an individual player offensive rating.  The glossary you quoted above is just points per possessions.  The calculation for individual player offensive rating uses a set of formulas that are way more complex. 

Ah, hadn't realized that.  The statsheet glossary could use some work.  Looking closer at the kenpom explanations, he mentions the formulas are too complex to be listed and credits Dean Oliver.  I'll have to add that book to my wish list.

[Henry Sugar]

How does Buycks end up in the positive with offensive and defensive ratings below the team average?

He had a good game against Grambling and then he's been both wildly inconsistent and mostly mediocre net-points wise.  His offensive and defensive ratings have a lot of variance.  Besides, at +2 points positive, that's basically neutral.

edit:  That's funny.  I made the same mistake mixing up team offensive efficiency and player offensive ratings that I just talked about earlier in the thread.  The expanded answer is that team offensive points per possession (or allowed) are not the same as individual player offensive/defensive ratings.  That, plus the previous comment.

[Blackhat]

Highly suspicious of any defensive measurement in basketball stats besides the basic initial encounter measurements.  

If you let the guy get penetration which causes the opening before the opening you don't mark against defender, etc.  

Myriad of situations where defensive stats are rendered junk.  

[Dr. Blackheart]

Calculations on usage, offensive and defensive ratings, and Net points added for the season so far.  The data is sorted from highest to lowest by Net Points Added.

So, I get his playing time has been limited but based on his offensive and defensive numbers, why doesn't EWilliams deserve some game time compared to some of the others? Buzz's doghouse?