Marquette Vs. UWM - Individual Performances

After taking a look at the MU v. UWM team results, I realized that there were a lot of interesting things to also take from the Individual performances by MU players. Let's just say that a lot of guys raised their season averages based on the UWM game.

Let's start by considering the key statistics that we'll be looking at:

• Offensive Efficiency - This is not the Dean Oliver statistic. It's a view of Total Points per 100 Possessions. I consider 100 as an average view of Offensive Efficiency.
  
• Points Per Weighted Shot - This is (Total Points) / (FGA + (0.475 * FTA)). A PPWS of 1.00 is average and 1.300 is doing quite well.
• Usage - The total number of possessions that this player consumes during the game. It may sound obvious, but a team wants a highly efficient or high PPWS player to have a high usage.
• Efficiency Per Minute - This takes the NBA Efficiency Rating and divides it by the number of minutes per player.
  

Here's the breakdown for each MU player. Yellow is average or DNP, Red is below average, and Green is above average. Note that there is a lot of green below:



A few comments on the Individual Results:

First, note that the Usage was fairly well distributed across the board and consistent with our other games. Dominic James is averaging a Usage of 21% and McNeal is averaging Usage of 20.5%. Acker had a higher usage than season average (7%), but Cubillan, Hayward, Barro, Matthews, and Burke were all around their season averages.

Next, there were a lot of folks on the team that were above season average.

• Season average for Offensive Efficiency is 113 - clearly a large number of performers above that point
• Season average for PPWS is 1.16 - which is fairly good for a team. This season average is above last year's and almost exactly even with the 05-06 team.
• Season average for Efficiency Per Minute (EPM) is 0.357

Finally, the numbers continue to show that Acker and Matthews are somewhat disappointing so far this season. I, for one, have been a big Wesley Matthews fan. In 06-07 and 05-06, he had a better Offensive Efficiency and PPWS than both McNeal and James (more on this in subsequent posts). But his numbers are down this year. Also, a lot of people are high on Acker, but the numbers are not kind to him so far. I'm sure that the common criticism of these numbers is that he is a "pure point guard", so this blog will have to investigate to see what merit this criticism contains.

That's about enough of UWM, however. Let's begin looking at Wisconsin. In a day or two I'll have a full revision and better information for the ideas in this post. Hopefully, we'll also be able to look at a preview of the Wisconsin game using some of the information contained on Pomeroy's site.