I've discussed my smart shooting metric here before, and tried to use it as a way to compare players to other players and try to figure out who is taking advantage of their skillsets effectively. Today, I decided to take a derivative of that equation to look at how teams rank up against each other. I decided to not include any usage data here and did not include any weight for the 3 points like previously done. Additionally, I did not include any Free Throw shooting in this, out of pure laziness. It wasn't immediately in the data I had, so I didn't bother with it. This is calculated by taking the percentage of shots taken from each BBR shooting zone and multiplying it by the shooting percentage in that zone minus league average for that zone. Additionally, I used the opponent shooting for each team and did the same calculation to see if teams were doing a decent job at forcing opponents into bad shots. I know there are a multitude of fallacies in the way I'm analyzing this data, but it was just meant as a quick visual and discussion starter. Proof of the fallacies in this analysis is quick to find. No way should the Spurs have such a bad ranking for opponent shooting. They are the undisputed best defense in the league and you would expect to see them show highly when looking at their opponents shooting numbers. The Clippers also show out as an anomaly here, to the point I checked to make sure I didn't somehow switch their team and opponent numbers. Lakers in the middle of the pack was amusing as well. Anyway, probably not a ton to learn from this, but was a fun little bit of playing with numbers.
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