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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
About the Points Created and the Player Contribution

How much value is placed on an assist ? Like the problems with rebounds and blocked shots, standard formulas try to arbitrarily assign a value to assists that would give credit to the 'assistant' and simultaneously take the same account of credit away from the 'assisted'. Assists, though, unlike rebounds or blocked shots, have a definite scoring possession associated with them: there is no assists without points scored.

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An individual floor percentage could be a way for not only evaluate the offensive efficiency of players, but also to calculate the points created by each player.

"Individual Floor Percentage"= scoring possessions by a player divided by his total possessions.

"Player's Scoring Possessions"=
field goals that weren't assisted on
+ a not specified percentage of his field goals that were assisted on
+ a not specified percentage of his assists
+ free throw made that represent a team scoring possession.

"Player's Total Possessions"=
all his scoring possessions
+ his missed field goals
+ free throws that weren't rebounded by his team
+ turnovers.

The question to go on with this topic resides in the value of that "not specified percentage" in each field.

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