8 Responses to “Team W-L Record in Games as a Leading Scorer”

1. Garron Says:
   February 3rd, 2011 at 11:03 am

   Could you also throw in there total games played? Just so we know what % of games they played they were actually the leading scorer.

2. Neil Paine Says:
   February 3rd, 2011 at 11:14 am

   I hate to say it, but I can't. I really don't have time to re-run all of the tables and put that in right now. Probably one of the first times I've ever turned down a commenter request like this.

3. DocRostov Says:
   February 3rd, 2011 at 11:33 am

   This is an interesting little exercise. One thing that popped out to me was Malone's insane number of games, there -- 1067 games as a leading scorer? That's ridiculous. I realize he was the main scoring option on the Jazz for essentially his entire career, but DANG.

4. Jason J Says:
   February 3rd, 2011 at 1:27 pm

   It would be interesting to see what the win%s were for their teams when they didn't lead in scoring as a comparison.

5. AHL Says:
   February 3rd, 2011 at 2:18 pm

   Well, this leads to the obligatory relative performance question: Compare these W/L records to the W/L when they aren't the leadimg scorer, to see when raising their game truly improved their team.

   When you have time to re-run the tables. =)

6. Sean Says:
   February 3rd, 2011 at 7:22 pm

   Not very surprised to see Larry Bird at the top of the list in winning percentage.

7. Will Says:
   February 4th, 2011 at 2:46 pm

   I was looking at the list, and found a few who have a very low percentage of games played in which they were the leading scorer. The list th

   Alton Lister, Manute Bol, Mark Eaton [who had none in career], Brad Davis, adam keefe, Joe Wolfe, Jon koncak, Greg Foster ........ Sense a theme in these ?

   Also, I was surprised at the low amount of games for norm nixon and world b. free, despite that they both averaged over 15ppg for their career].

   For current players, ronnie Turiaf [over 300 games played] has only 1.

8. Knick with the Knack Says:
   February 6th, 2011 at 10:18 pm

   Well, this leads to the obligatory relative performance question: Compare these W/L records to the W/L when they aren't the leadimg scorer, to see when raising their game truly improved their team.

   Ditto.

   Better would be to weigh the non-high-scorer W% by number of games the player led in scoring each season, so that all the games Player X had as a rookie on a crappy team don't overwhelm the games five years later when he was the best player on a great team.