Quote (Sixers @ Jun 26 2024 01:13pm)
Good old home cooking inflated Jordan's numbers 🤷‍♂️
Breaking out his numbers into game location, we find that Jordan averaged a mind-boggling 4 steals and 2.1 blocks at home. But on the road, those numbers shrunk to a more normal rate of 2.1 steals and 1.2 blocks.
Put simply, Jordan’s steals and blocks nearly doubled at home compared to the road. To account for possible uneven playing time effects, we can look at per-36-minute numbers for a truer portrayal of the phenomenon. Jordan’s combined block and steals numbers (“stocks”) were a whopping 82 percent higher at home (5.5 stocks per 36 minutes) than on the road (3.0).
It isn’t unusual for the NBA’s top defender to exhibit a slight home/road disparity. It’s common knowledge that players perform better at home in front of friendly confines (as Jackson showed last season).
But the size of Jordan’s 1987-88 gap is unprecedented.
Dating back to 1982-83 when the award was established, Jordan’s home-vs.-away disparity in combined blocks and steals represents the largest of any Defensive Player of the Year award winner in NBA history.
No other instance in the award’s history has a player shown a disparity that touched 160 percent — except for Jordan’s 1987-88 season, which clocked in at 182 percent.
According to the league office, in an effort to ensure the most accurate statistics, the NBA has used modern technology to apply real-time auditing oseason. In today’s environment, with more eyes on the game and a greater attention to detail in the legalized gambling era, the home/road disparity is now all but gone. The homer bias, at least statistically, seems to have been eradicated.
windy city, doors were left open in the arena making dribbling difficult for those not accustomed to it and shots slip just enough for him to get a hand up - ergo jordan got more steals and blocks
this guy, thinks it's home cooking when in reality it's just global warming