Chaos

As I said to the other guy, points is what determines games. Not some efficiency formula.

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kflo

do you understand that the faster pace you play, the more scoring opportunities you and your opponent will have? that's why ppg doesn't give you a true MEASURE of defense. it simply tells you how many points you gave up, not how well you did at stopping your opponent. giving up 100 pts on 80 trips down court is not the same as giving up 100 pts on 100 trips down court. you have 100 ppg allowed in either case, but no idea of how well you played on d. efficiency tells you that the latter team was much better defensively. it's ok to open your mind to knew things.

Foulzilla

Except you can't take ppg between teams and compare. For example, the Suns play a very fast paced game. Them and their opponents will tend to score more points then say Houston and their opponents who plays a much slower paced game. So is Houston a better defensive team just because their opponent scores less total points (I'm just using Houstons for the pace example, not actually comparing the teams)? I would say not. You need to take the game pace into consideration which is what the efficiency stats do.

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carrrnuttt

How about Point differentials then? As in the average difference between the team, and it's opponents:

	TEAM	GAMES		HME		OPP		DIFF		HME		OPP		HME		OPP		HME		OPP		HME		OPP		DIFF
1	Detroit	15		98.86		90.66		+8.20		0.459		0.438		0.402		0.331		0.765		0.773		23.93		19.00		+4.93
2	San Antonio	16		97.50		90.37		+7.12		0.478		0.425		0.374		0.335		0.726		0.735		20.25		17.12		+3.12
3	Memphis	17		91.35		85.52		+5.82		0.448		0.428		0.380		0.309		0.675		0.762		19.64		19.17		+0.47
4	Phoenix	15		103.33		97.66		+5.66		0.462		0.429		0.355		0.349		0.779		0.708		26.73		16.06		+10.66
5	Cleveland	16		101.87		97.18		+4.68		0.441		0.467		0.359		0.424		0.806		0.735		18.18		20.68		-2.50
6	Dallas	16		98.56		94.18		+4.37		0.463		0.447		0.392		0.341		0.752		0.747		17.06		17.12		-0.06
7	Miami	17		97.11		92.82		+4.29		0.468		0.434		0.361		0.353		0.721		0.719		19.52		19.11		+0.41
8	Indiana	16		95.37		91.50		+3.87		0.458		0.432		0.372		0.360		0.719		0.748		18.56		18.37		+0.18
9	L.A. Clippers	16		99.50		95.75		+3.75		0.470		0.409		0.325		0.317		0.806		0.766		20.37		20.06		+0.31
10	Golden State	18		97.44		93.72		+3.72		0.425		0.432		0.322		0.293		0.714		0.743		21.16		21.11		+0.05
11	Minnesota	15		94.20		91.06		+3.13		0.471		0.430		0.344		0.305		0.739		0.782		21.60		17.86		+3.73
12	Washington	15		98.93		97.46		+1.46		0.434		0.434		0.335		0.364		0.725		0.741		19.13		21.46		-2.33
13	Denver	18		96.27		95.27		+1.00		0.442		0.434		0.254		0.329		0.734		0.718		23.50		21.88		+1.61
14	Sacramento	17		98.11		98.29		-0.17		0.458		0.461		0.360		0.353		0.780		0.762		23.76		23.17		+0.58
15	Philadelphia	18		102.22		102.83		-0.61		0.459		0.461		0.362		0.332		0.783		0.754		20.00		21.83		-1.83
16	L.A. Lakers	16		95.93		96.93		-1.00		0.426		0.448		0.332		0.336		0.737		0.754		19.75		20.93		-1.18
17	Charlotte	18		96.66		97.72		-1.05		0.415		0.458		0.321		0.363		0.753		0.719		19.94		21.05		-1.11
18	Milwaukee	15		98.13		99.53		-1.40		0.438		0.454		0.436		0.403		0.719		0.740		21.06		21.46		-0.40
19	NO/Okla. City	16		92.12		93.93		-1.81		0.433		0.444		0.278		0.380		0.751		0.774		18.81		18.31		+0.50
20	Chicago	15		94.46		96.33		-1.86		0.426		0.433		0.393		0.360		0.707		0.767		22.00		21.00		+1.00
21	New Jersey	16		94.25		96.18		-1.93		0.438		0.424		0.330		0.383		0.731		0.782		21.12		20.43		+0.68
22	Boston	16		98.75		100.75		-2.00		0.465		0.454		0.393		0.376		0.754		0.737		22.06		20.81		+1.25
23	Utah	17		88.23		91.17		-2.94		0.413		0.427		0.345		0.364		0.723		0.689		19.41		18.47		+0.94
24	New York	16		92.62		95.68		-3.06		0.435		0.439		0.349		0.336		0.709		0.737		18.43		19.93		-1.50
25	Orlando	16		85.06		89.06		-4.00		0.430		0.443		0.402		0.326		0.727		0.705		16.56		19.06		-2.50
26	Houston	16		85.31		89.50		-4.18		0.412		0.425		0.364		0.351		0.780		0.702		16.50		20.56		-4.06
27	Seattle	16		100.00		104.62		-4.62		0.442		0.486		0.332		0.398		0.785		0.763		21.06