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Incredible combination of athleticsm, skill and competiveness. Michael Jordan seems like an old man to some now. Many NBA fans never saw him in his prime. Many are willing to say Kobe has passed him or his nearing his throne. For now Jordan stands safely on top.

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Vince Carter is still an all star caliber player with no standout weaknesses. It will be interesting to see how things work out with the Magic. He'll be asked to fill Hedo Turkoglu's shoes as a shot creator but his underrated shooting should lead to some easy points in Orlando's offense. He has a chance to solidify himself as a hall of fame candidate by just being an important part on a potential championship team.

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Odom is an extremely skilled and talented NBA player. Blessed with good but not elite physical tools but makes up for it with a versatile skill set. Now in his prime, if he could be more consistent he'd be more highly ragarded. As it stands now earned a ring as a very valuable player on a championship team.

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Perhaps the best pure point guard in NBA history. Stockton was a terrific all around player. An incredibly efficient shooter. Did the little things too like setting mean screens on bigs. Pick pocket defensively. An incredibly accurate passer who not just found the open man but found the right spot for and on the open man.

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Our goal here is to setup an NBA scouting database for all professional players. Right now the scouting reports you'll find here our done only with player stats and by a computer. He's not a very good scout in many areas like defense and athleticism (We're working on him)  We encourage the real scouts, our visitors to sign up for your own blog. You only have to enter a user name and valid email to get started, The post ups should be scouting reports of any player you choose. Not ready to blog then be sure to comment on the computer generated summaries.
Currently, we are setting up things so you can rate players you choose in different categories. With enough scouts out there we can form somewhat of a consensus on player skill levels. The best scouts in the world are the fans. Heres our chance. There aren't too many scouting reports out there of NBA players. In time,  basketball junkies will come here to get the real expert analysis.

 
I added plain pages for all players in NBA and ABA history. No stats yet, just some basic information. Name (helpful), age, weight, birthdate and pro debut. A very special  thanks to databasebasketball.com for providing the majority of the data used to create the pages. You can browse by letter or you can use the site search.
We plan on expanding the pages to include something very different. All the pages will have year by year listings However, rather than just straight numbers, we will use our computer scout to grade the player performance for the season with an A-F system similar to the player pages.
In the meantime, the players pages can be scouted. A handy scout this player link appears on the player page. You'll then be taking to the scouting view where users can rate or write about the player. They can be complete detailed reports summarizing every little detail about the players game or as simple as an overall rating. The recent scouting reports will show up on the first page and users with accounts can have all reports show up on their profile page and have access to more tools like an HTML editor. Once a scouting report is added for a particular player, that player's page will also contain a summary view of all the posted up scouting reports. Take a look at Michael Jordan's player page for an example of his page updated with the scouting reports from two of our users (Ok its me). The player page also shows the average rating of all reviews for scoring, shooting, rebounding, passing, ballhandling, defense, intangibles and overall.
Once we get a few reports going we will add a view that summarizes all reports and allows sorting and filtering. All of this is of course in the baby stage and we have a lot more ideas on the way. I'm also going to add our own scouting reports as often as possible to the mix. Hope you find this of interest and am looking forward to some postups.

It's on to Part III. I will try to keep this brief from here on out because
I dont want this to get tedious. If anything you need me to get in detail about
just post up and we can discuss.

Free Throws

We know from the work of others that every free throw uses about .44
possessions. NBA teams this season averaged about 25 free throw attempts this
season. If we multiple 25 by .44 we get about 11 possessions used on the free
throws. We can use .5 (2 attempts = 1 possession) without much change but we'll
stick with .44 as to account for three point plays and technicals.

After breaking down 2 point shooting and attempting to find a minimum threshold where you wont hurt your team we will go ahead and approach 3 point shots in more or less a totally different way. That makes sense right? Well, I will start
out things about the same but then I will take a totally different approach.

I'll start it off similarly to 2 pointers with a player who takes 100 3 point shots. If he makes all of them he will produce 300 points or 200 points over average. If he misses them all he will produce 30 points (30 offensive rebound chances = 30 points) or 70 points below average. This adds up to either, three pointers made * 3 + (three pointers missed * .3) - three pointers or three pointers made * 2 - three pointers missed * .7

If we use this to determine our minimum efficiency threshold (the point where a player begins to create positive points or credits for his team) we come up with 26 percent 3 point shooting. It's pretty low but it was low on 2 point shooting as well and it is consistent with the model. Well its not what I will use. Our 3 point value is 2.5 points instead of 3 and I will spend the next several paragraphs trying some how to explain how we get this number.

If we use the NBA league average of 36.2 % and credit 3 points per made 3, our team gets about 1.28 points per possession (.28 net).

If we take the NBA league average of 48.4 % and credit 2 points per made 2, our team gets about 1.12 points per possession (.12 net)

If we take the NBA league average of 36.1 % and credit 2.5 points per made 3 to the shooter as our system does, gets our team about 1.10 points per possession.(.10 net)

This just in! Lebron James, Kobe Bryant and Chris Paul are great NBA players and
I can prove it. My rankings system can look at stats and make that
groundbreaking determination. Of course I want to explain how this miracle works
so I will spend the next few paragraphs explaining our TRU linear weights rating
system.
In the attempt at semi seriousness though I hope that I can offer a little bit
of a different take on the value of basic NBA box score stats and give you
something that gives comparable importance to all stats and not be dominated by
one type of player. Scoring and rebounding both receive their due, but hopefully
in a way that makes some sense to everyone reading this.