It appears that, despite my subconcious compariosn, NBA players aren’t actually superheroes as some of the mighty fell quite a bit this week. Kobe Bryant has been experiencing a lot of trouble with his broken finger (wha? the guy is playing with a broken finger on his SHOOTING HAND?) and Dwight Howard still hasn’t totally found his mojo, yet. Meanwhile, a certain speedster has.
The Miami Heat went 2-2 last week but it wasn’t Flash’s fault. Or was it? Wade put up quite the gaudy little line of 32.3 PPG / 6.0 RPG / 5.5 APG but only had an average shooting week (47% from the floor and 77% from the line). With such a ho-hum shooting percentage, that means Flash had to be a bit of a volume shooter – taking a lot of shots to reach those lofty scoring numbers.
Biggest Jump: Dwyane Wade (5)
Biggest Fall: Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard (5)
Hello: Brandon Roy
Goodbye: N/A
Ineligible: Kevin Martin, Pau Gasol
| NBA Top 10 (by APP+) | |||||||
| Rank | Prev | Player | Team(s) | Pos. | GP | APP | APP+ |
1 |
1 | Chris Paul |  |
G | 27 | ↓ 31.49 | ↑ 22.55 |
2 |
2 | LeBron James |  |
F | 39 | ↓ 28.27 | ↓ 19.57 |
| - | - | Kevin Martin (Injured) (Ineligible) |  |
G | 5 | ↓ 27.56 | ↓ 18.62 |
| - | 5 | Pau Gasol (Injured) (Ineligible) |  |
F | 22 | ↓ 27.25 | ↑ 18.54 |
3 |
8 | Dwyane Wade | 
| G | 35 | ↑ 27.37 | ↑ 18.43 |
| 4 | 7 | Tim Duncan |  |
F-C | 33 | ↑ 28.69 | ↑ 18.40 |
| 5 | 3 | Chris Bosh |  |
F-C | 38 | ↓ 28.39 | ↓ 18.10 |
| 6 | 6 | Dirk Nowitzki |  |
F | 36 | ↓ 26.63 | ↓ 17.93 |
| 7 | 11 | David Lee |  |
F | 36 | ↑ 26.43 | ↑ 17.73 |
| 8 | 12 | Kevin Durant |  |
G-F | 36 | ↑ 27.24 | ↑ 17.50 |
| 9 | 10 | Carmelo Anthony |  |
F | 32 | ↑ 25.87 | ↑ 17.17 |
| 10 | 13 | Steve Nash |  |
G | 37 | ↑ 26.03 | ↑ 17.09 |
| Just Outside | |||||||
| Rank | Prev | Player | Team(s) | Pos. | GP | APP | APP+ |
| 11 | 4 | Kobe Bryant | |
G-F | 37 | ↓ 26.69 | ↓ 16.95 |
| 12 | 14 | Gerald Wallace |  |
F | 34 | ↑ 25.36 | ↑ 16.66 |
| 13 | 15 | Deron Williams |  |
G | 33 | ↑ 25.57 | ↑ 16.63 |
| 14 | 9 | Dwight Howard |  |
C-F | 37 | ↓ 25.58 | ↓ 16.33 |
| 15 | - | Brandon Roy |  |
G | 38 | 25.21 | 16.27 |
| Positional Average APP (from 1980-Present) | |||||||
| Position | G | G-F | F-G | F | F-C | C-F | C |
| Avg. APP | 8.94 | 9.74 | 10.09 | 8.70 | 10.29 | 9.25 | ↑ 8.14 |
| # of Players | ↑ 4817 | 1229 | 803 | 3620 | 1621 | 843 | ↑ 1667 |
APP – Adjusted Pace Performance
A weighted formula for combining everything a player does on the basketball court into one number. This number is then adjusted based upon the players’ team pace to provide a balanced way to compare players’ performance.
APP+ – APP Above Positional Average APP
Player’s weighted performance minus the performance of an average player at his same position.Players are considered ineligible if they fail to play in 60% of their team’s games.
APP for an average NBA player for the 2010 season: ↓ 9.69
APP+ for an average NBA player for the 2010 season: ↓ 0.81
Stats through 1/10/2010