While the sample size is somewhat small, it appears Booker has started right where he left off in last year’s playoffs. He is averaging 29.6 points, 8.6 assists, and 5.5 rebounds per game on 51/45/92 shooting splits. That’s good for 65% TS. The Suns are also 7-1 when he plays.

With all the (justified) MVP hype KD has been getting as well as games missed early in the season, it’s easy to overlook the fact that Booker is putting up legitimate superstar numbers. Reminder - he only just turned 27.

  • jojojohn11@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I noticed other comments not understanding that you can use a T-test so I did. Anyway OP nice find.

    Besides the fact it’s obvious Devin Booker is having a hot start to his season if you do run a T-test to see if his Points per Game where we assume his current PPG = average PPG over his seasons. Over his entire career and over the past 5 years (I think this is a better representation) both cases give you T-values inside a Rejection Region of the respective degrees of freedom with α=.05. Same goes for ASTs, and Total Rebounds. Unfortunately basketball reference doesn’t have TS% so I didn’t do that one. If you run a linear regression analysis where you take factors of, 3PA, 2PA, FTA when compared to PPG (why did I only choose these 3. I’m lazy) he his above what the predicted model should typically give him. (Yes I did also run F tests to make sure all 3 factors were significant).

    TLDR: Devin Booker playing good basketball.