We’re staying close to yesterday’s topic today. Yesterday we talked about NBA teams late season attempts at Kaizen (Japanese for “change for the better”) better known as the trade season.
Today we’re going to focus on Muda.
Muda is the japanese word for an activity that is wasteful and doesn’t add value. Keeping in mind that the goal in the NBA is wins of course and that our standard is Wins Produced (explained here in the Basics and powered by Nerdnumbers) we are going to talk losers.
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Losers will be all players who for each season cost their team wins (and winners generate wins). Here’s a fun table:
16% of all minutes in the NBA go to players who cost their team wins. The cost of these losses is around -8.4% of the Wins produced by the winners in the league. The Lakers and Blazers are the best at avoiding bad players while the Clippers and Bobcats draw them like flies to cadavers.
Here’s another fun table:
That’s the teams with the most losses produced all time. What the point of all this? If I add in the projected numbers for this years teams,
| Team | % of Minutes for Winners | % of Minutes for Losers | Wins | Loses | Total Wins | % Win Loss |
| 2011MIN | 47% | 53% | 36.4 | -12.5 | 23.9 | -34.4% |
| 2011TOR | 48% | 52% | 34.7 | -10.1 | 24.6 | -29.2% |
| 2011NJN | 60% | 40% | 31.1 | -7.37 | 23.8 | -23.7% |
| 2011CLE | 63% | 37% | 21.9 | -8.62 | 13.3 | -39.4% |
| 2011BOS | 72% | 28% | 62.6 | -4.17 | 58.4 | -6.7% |
| 2011WAS | 78% | 22% | 24.9 | -2.69 | 22.2 | -10.8% |
| 2011LAC | 79% | 21% | 36.5 | -5.33 | 31.2 | -14.6% |
| 2011OKC | 79% | 21% | 50.5 | -3.31 | 47.2 | -6.6% |
| 2011DEN | 83% | 17% | 51.8 | -3.28 | 48.5 | -6.3% |
| 2011UTA | 84% | 16% | 45.4 | -5.88 | 39.5 | -13.0% |
| 2011LAL | 84% | 16% | 59.5 | -1.78 | 57.7 | -3.0% |
| 2011PHO | 83% | 17% | 45.7 | -4.39 | 41.3 | -9.6% |
| 2011POR | 84% | 16% | 48.4 | -5.94 | 42.4 | -12.3% |
| 2011ORL | 85% | 15% | 59.6 | -3.2 | 56.4 | -5.4% |
| 2011ATL | 86% | 14% | 48.4 | -4.81 | 43.5 | -9.9% |
| 2011HOU | 87% | 13% | 46.7 | -3.83 | 42.9 | -8.2% |
| 2011NOH | 87% | 13% | 49.3 | -2.6 | 46.7 | -5.3% |
| 2011SAC | 87% | 13% | 27.2 | -2.16 | 25.0 | -7.9% |
| 2011GSW | 88% | 12% | 35 | -3.31 | 31.6 | -9.5% |
| 2011IND | 88% | 12% | 41.4 | -1.58 | 39.8 | -3.8% |
| 2011MIA | 89% | 11% | 63.5 | -1.39 | 62.1 | -2.2% |
| 2011MEM | 93% | 7% | 49.7 | -3.42 | 46.3 | -6.9% |
| 2011CHI | 93% | 7% | 58 | -1.58 | 56.4 | -2.7% |
| 2011DET | 95% | 5% | 33.1 | -3.23 | 29.8 | -9.8% |
| 2011NYK | 94% | 6% | 44.2 | -2.2 | 42.0 | -5.0% |
| 2011MIL | 96% | 4% | 37.5 | -0.57 | 36.9 | -1.5% |
| 2011CHA | 96% | 4% | 37.2 | -2.4 | 34.8 | -6.5% |
| 2011DAL | 98% | 2% | 51.6 | -0.43 | 51.2 | -0.8% |
| 2011SAS | 98% | 2% | 60.8 | -0.85 | 59.9 | -1.4% |
| 2011PHI | 99% | 1% | 47.2 | -1.27 | 45.9 | -2.7% |
I get:
As much as Kevin Love is historically good, his team is historically bad.
Free Kevin Love.
That is all.
dm
02/28/2011
EntityAbyss
03/01/2011
Kevin Love is carrying a horrendous team on his back. Imagine being him. I think the Minnesota coaching don’t see just how good he is.