No MVP for last game / Graphs

It makes me very sad to say this - there will be no Black Mamba for the last league game. Even though it looked like Motorbreath was a lock to win it, only 7 people voted. Those extra 5 votes could have made a big difference. I think MVP polls should only count if we get at least 75% votes (9 votes).

Normally, I would apologize to Motorbreath for the lost victory, but he revealed an ugly truth to me the other day. He told me that he waits until the last minute to vote, so he can sway the results in his favor. I felt ill when I heard that.

Side note about the game score chart from a few posts ago. My performance in Game 12 qualified as the best individual performance in Mamba, yet Aidan won the MVP. This tells us that there are more factors than numbers at stake (or a Motorbreath-led voting conspiracy).

Here are a few graphs on career FG%. The blue line indicates your FG% over the course of your career and the black line is your trendline. Put simply, if the trendline is pointing up you're on the upswing. If it's pointing down, time to work on your jump shot. Workley, Sessions, and Motorbreath look good. Eagle, time to get that personal basketball coach you keep talking about.

Data swarm

Behold! Yet another table of basketball data. These are the career stats for everyone who has played a league game. Most of the categories should be pretty self explanatory. A/TO is how many assists you get per turnover. There's a lot to look at here, so get yourself a nice glass of warm milk and sit with it for awhile.

Once Weasel, Penguin and Babyfox get another game under their belt, I'll post the PER (player efficiency ratings). --neal

Player	G	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3pt %	O-Reb	D-Reb	T-Reb	RPG
Babyfox	2	28	74	37.8%	6	9	66.7%	5	18	23	11.5
Carlson	13	142	343	41.4%	2	12	16.7%	118	179	297	22.8
Motorbreath	12	100	287	34.8%	0	4	0.0%	107	185	292	24.3
Eagle	13	130	443	29.3%	12	53	22.6%	55	104	159	12.2
Weasel	2	16	48	33.3%	0	4	0.0%	6	23	29	14.5
Dutchman	6	34	117	29.1%	2	13	15.4%	47	69	116	19.3
Stallion	13	121	347	34.9%	1	13	7.7%	83	97	180	13.8
Dr. Sessions	12	70	242	28.9%	0	4	0.0%	60	76	136	11.3
Penguin	2	8	23	34.8%	0	6	0.0%	2	16	18	9.0
Weevil	13	49	235	20.9%	2	10	20.0%	48	54	102	7.8
Workley	12	45	195	23.1%	0	0	0.0%	53	64	117	9.8
Lightning	13	34	176	19.3%	0	1	0.0%	31	56	87	6.7
Average	113	777	2530	30.7%	25	129	19.4%	615	941	1556	13.8
B-Flo	9	34	151	22.5%	0	1	0.0%	52	79	131	14.6
Hot Shot	7	35	162	21.6%	0	0	0.0%	14	48	62	8.9
John	1	4	21	19.0%	0	0	0.0%	1	3	4	4.0
Avg w/retirees	130	850	2864	29.7%	25	130	19.2%	682	1071	1753	13.5
Player	T-Ast	APG	T-Stl	SPG	T-Blk	BPG	T-TO	TOPG	T-Pts	PPG	A/TO
Babyfox	18	9.0	10	5.0	1	0.5	17	8.5	62	31.0	1.1
Carlson	56	4.3	56	4.3	35	2.7	38	6.3	286	22.0	0.7
Motorbreath	52	4.3	59	4.9	27	2.3	41	8.2	200	16.7	0.5
Eagle	67	5.2	68	5.2	4	0.3	28	4.7	272	20.9	1.1
Weasel	9	4.5	10	5.0	10	5.0	10	5.0	32	16.0	0.9
Dutchman	18	3.0	26	4.3	35	5.8	25	4.2	70	11.7	0.7
Stallion	33	2.5	41	3.2	15	1.2	28	4.7	243	18.7	0.5
Dr. Sessions	25	2.1	31	2.6	7	0.6	16	3.2	140	11.7	0.7
Penguin	6	3.0	7	3.5	1	0.5	8	4.0	16	8.0	0.8
Weevil	9	0.7	17	1.3	3	0.2	9	1.5	100	7.7	0.5
Workley	30	2.5	21	1.8	1	0.1	33	5.5	90	7.5	0.5
Lightning	44	3.4	49	3.8	2	0.2	44	7.3	68	5.2	0.5
Average	367	3.2	395	3.5	141	1.2	297	5.1	1579	14.0	0.6
B-Flo	24	2.7	26	2.9	19	2.1	20	5.0	68	7.6	0.5
Hot Shot	9	1.3	15	2.1	13	1.9	0	0.0	70	10.0	0.0
John	2	2.0	1	1.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	8	8.0	0.0
Avg w/retirees	402	3.1	437	3.4	173	1.3	317	5.1	1725	13.3	0.6