Predicting the Lakers 2015-16 Win Total
Jamie Rico July 27, 2015 no comment
The Lakers are entering the season filled with uncertainty. They have a completely revamped roster, 2 promising young prospects about to get their first taste of the NBA, and a 37 year old Kobe coming off of 3 straight seasons ending in injury.
Nobody knows for sure how well this team will fare, but we might be able to look into the numbers and come up with a reasonable expectation for the 2015-16 Los Angeles Lakers. The main stat we focused on was win shares. Throughout the season each player accumulates win shares, which shows how many wins that player is directly responsible for. If you add the win shares from everyone on the team, you get about the same amount of wins the team has. This method takes offense and defense into account. According to the creator of the win shares stat, the margin of error for a team’s total is approximately 2.75.
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It's a pretty awesome video of the two of them going at it. It shows some good, some bad, but really the development of Kobe into basically the closest you could possibly be to Jordan. The media is doing their damnedest to forget Kobe existed so they can prop up LeBron, but this video shows the growth of Mamba through the years against his idol. I love it.
