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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Some Numbers about Basketball Starters and Substitutes

We can find at the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System many references to the starters statistics compared with the substitutes stats.
And also, a reasonable approximation for percentage of minutes played vs. opponents starters and vs. opponents substitutes.

I think it is an important data, from the moment that most games are decided in the first few minutes, not the last few on the contrary to popular belief. Therefore the starters performance should be specially analyzed...

As was said and analyzed in our Basketball Statistics Analysis Clinic, most games are decided in the first few minutes, not the last few on the contrary to popular belief.

Here I translate some lines from the study performed at the eBA System about the topic of starters and substitutes, for the complete analysis go to eBAClinics.com.

...Games Started is a fair first indicator upon which to set an estimate of % of minutes played vs. starters and vs. substitutes. Start a high % of games, make a pretence of a distinctive starter model. ...

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...Starters arrive to better stats and they bring them against starters ! Starters who only play a few minutes probably don't play against substitutes much at all. ...

...Starters take more rebounds than substitutes, and so a player's Games Started % ( %minutes vs starters ) should change the status to a proportionate degree the % of rebounds a substitute obtain. ...

... Number of fouls made vary by 50% from high% starters compared with substitutes. The starters render 60-80% of points, rebounds and assists on most teams but substitutes often perform more than 50 percent of the fouls given the deliberate team strategy to use fouls to give from the bench. ...

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