Re: Predict your schools' minutes
Posted: September 28th, 2012, 12:16 pm
havoc wrote:Hail Our Panthers wrote:Even if I round every player (where his avg. minutes per game is xx.x) on UNI's roster last year, the total still adds up to over 200.
You don't have to play a full minute to get a minute of playing time in the scorebook.
Again, rounding has very little of a difference. I was hoping you would see it for yourself from my last point, but obviously you didn't.
UNI played 34 games last year, correct? Only 5 players played in all 34 games. When you calculate a players MPG statistic, they divide his total minutes played by the total number of games he played in, not how many games UNI played. If you want to add numbers together and get something very close to 200, you have to divide the players total minutes by 34. When you add the averages listed in UNI's season statistics, Nate Buss's 2 MPG has more weighting then it really should since he only really played about .1 minutes per UNI game.
Nice explanation, havoc.
I see why Evansville won the academic award this year and UNI did not.