A few Clippers Physique Averages (Weight, Height, Age, ect)

by ClipperTheorist on Aug 23, 2009 12:32 AM PDT

Hello, everyone. Here are a few statistical averages from the current roster for this year's Clippers squad. My source for the roster and numbers were the Clippers Official Site roster. I didn't include Alex Acker, Brian Skinner, or Fred Jones in my calculations. The inclusion of Steve Novak didn't drastically sway any of the statistics. These numbers were 100% calculated by me:

Team	Avg Height	Avg Weight	Avg Age	Avg Exp Yr
Clippers	6 foot 7.1	225	26.25	5.2

In the 2007-2008 season an nba.com poll found the average NBA height to be 6 foot 7. (http://www.nba.com/news/survey_height_2007.html)

In the 2007-2008 season an nba.com poll found the average NBA weight to be 221 pounds. (http://www.nba.com/news/survey_2007.html)

You can basically interpolate from those statistics that the possible 2009-2010 Clippers roster is not too big or way to small. There are advantage and disadvantage for any type of height, so staying near the average kind of dampens any huge advantage or disadvantage presented by height.

The problem with this calculation is that it isn't practical. Taking an average means I expect every player on the team to play the same amount of minutes every game. What would be a lot more interesting are weighted averages that give a higher weight to a player with more playing time. So here is where I would need your help.

If someone can make a rotation, or basically assign an amount of minutes in a game to each player on the current 2009-2010 Clippers roster, I can get a weighted average for the statistics I have shown. That way, the number we calculate will give a better showing of what teams will most likely see when they play the Clippers.

*We can definitely see the Clippers are young and maybe not the most experienced team. This could get swayed if put a weight on the age and experience statistics though.

Thank you for your time.

-Clipper Theorist

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Here are their 2008-2009 averages

Al Thornton: 37.4 minutes
Eric Gordon: 34.3
Baron Davis: 34.6
Chris Kaman: 29.7
Marcus Camby: 31.0
Steve Novak: 15.4
Ricky Davis: 21.8
Mardy Collins: 20.9
DeAndre Jordan: 14.5

There are a couple things to consider. 1) There were a ton of injuries, so some players’ minutes are inflated b/c of the extra opportunity. 2) This year’s roster is different.

Let’s just keep this simple, since we don’t know what CMDsr is going to do (is that the correct acronym, btw?)

Give Blake Griffin 28 minutes. Camby’s getting old, so give him 25 minutes. Split the remaining 43 big-man minutes between Kaman, Craig Smith, and DeAndre Jordan. Let’s say…28 for Kaman, 10 for Smith and 5 for Jordan.

Give BD and EJ 34 minutes each (close to their averages last year). Bassy Telfair takes up 12 PG minutes, Thornton gets 26 minutes at the 3, Butler picks up 26 of his own at the 2 and 3, and Collins grabs 11 of the remaining minutes at 1 and 2, leaving 1 minute for Ricky Buckets.

So it shakes out like so:

Baron Davis: 34
Eric Gordon: 34
Blake Griffin: 28
Chris Kaman: 28
Al Thornton: 26
Rasual Butler: 26
Marcus Camby: 25
Sebastian Telfair: 12
Mardy Collins: 11
Craig Smith: 10
DeAndre Jordan: 5
Ricky Davis: 1

Of course there are likely 2 more players to consider before the season starts, but whatever. Calculate away!

by d2s4ui1 on Aug 23, 2009 4:01 AM PDT reply actions

Keep in mind that I'm saying IF Baron is BoomDizzle.

Baron Davis: 37
Eric Gordon:33
Blake Griffin: 32
Chris Kaman: 298
Al Thoron: 30 (I look for Thornton to improve this season if we have a running/ less iso offense)
Butler 22
Camby:23
Telfair:
Craig Smith
Jordan
Collins
Davis

I didn’t calculate the rest of the bench because I stopped counting my numbers after that, but that should be where my main Clippers min goes.

Of coruse, with 2 rooster space left (1 assuming it goes to Novak), my second guess would be that it goes toa pg?

Mike Smith on Eric Gordon: "The Clippers may have found their go to scorer."
On a second note, I want Novak back!

by JackduhSun on Aug 23, 2009 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Lol Kaman's getting 298 minutes per game?

“He’s EVERYWHERE! Kaveman is unstoppable!”

by d2s4ui1 on Aug 23, 2009 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Sorry

I meant to say 29* Big typo. Must find a way to have smaller fingers.. LOL

Mike Smith on Eric Gordon: "The Clippers may have found their go to scorer."
On a second note, I want Novak back!

by JackduhSun on Aug 23, 2009 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions

Using the Minutes as the Weight

*Total Roster:
Average Height: 6 foot 7.1
Weighted Average Height: 6 foot 7
Average Weight: 225.25 lb
Weighted Average Weight: 227.9 lb
Average Age: 26.25 years
Weighted Average Age: 26.4125 years
Average Experience: 5.166667 Years
Weighted Average Experience: 5.1666667 Years

*Guards:
Average Height: 6 foot 4.333
Weighted Average Height: 6 foot 3.980
Average Weight: 205.33 lb
Weighted Average Weight: 211.04 lb
Average Age: 26.6667 years
Weighted Average Age: 26.3305 years
Average Experience: 6.1667 Years
Weighted Average Experience: 5.5932 Years

*Forwards:
Average Height: 6 foot 8.333
Weighted Average Height: 6 foot 8.810
Average Weight: 226 lb
Weighted Average Weight: 229.7241 lb
Average Age: 27.8333 years
Weighted Average Age: 27.0517 years
Average Experience: 6 Years
Weighted Average Experience: 5.1724 Years

*Centers:
Average Height: 6 foot 11.33
Weighted Average Height: 6 foot 11.48
Average Weight: 250 lb
Weighted Average Weight: 250.7759 lb
Average Age: 27.6667 years
Weighted Average Age: 29.931 years
Average Experience: 6.666667 Years
Weighted Average Experience: 8.5862 Years

*I have a chart, graphs, pictures, and more, but I don’t know how I can post all that here. Does anyone know how I could do that?
*The positions were decided by the official Clippers website.

by ClipperTheorist on Aug 23, 2009 4:02 PM PDT reply actions

Are these the new stats after taking into account the minutes?

if so…it seems to be the same as the averages you calculated at the top..?

so maybe minutes don’t make a difference?

by KidJustin on Aug 24, 2009 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions

About the Weights

The weights I used were the minute spreads one of the above posters provided. I would multiply each player’s stats by their minutes. This would make a weighted stat. For example, once I added together all the weighted ages, I would divde by 240 (the sum of the weights which is the total number of minutes) to get a weighted average for age.

The reason the weighted average are so close to the averages is because the minutes spread provided is fairly spread out and doesn’t have too many minutes alloted to a select few. So the above posters did a good job spreading and evening out the minutes to give time evenly to each position.

If I had done this to a Phoenix lineup a couple years ago, the average and the weighted average could have been a lot different from each other.

There were also a couple coincidences in the calculation. If I had the chance to show the spreadsheets I had made, these calculations would have made a bit more sense. I hope this explanation helped out a bit.
-Clipper Theorist

by ClipperTheorist on Aug 24, 2009 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions