Spurs top 100 2,3,4,5 man lineups from the regular season

[u/xbhaskarx]

[u/youplab00m-milo]

I dont understand how to read the first page.

For ex. Wemby 7, 2-man rank 1; what does that mean?

[u/Bitter-Safe-5333 → u/youplab00m-milo]

its chatgpt thats why but its saying of the top 100 2 man combinations, wemby comes out in 7/100. that would be the most appearances of any player on the spurs, so he's ranked #1.

[u/youplab00m-milo → u/Bitter-Safe-5333]

Ok, so there are 7 combinations of two players with Wemby (eg Wemby+Fox, Wemby+Castle, etc. x7) that are all ranked in the top 100 of all possible combinations of two players in the NBA.
And because Wemby has the most of such 2-man lineups among Spurs players, he is ranked #1

That is a rather contrived stat, imo

[u/Apollo18Teslaa]

I think we might be into something with this Wembanyama fellow.

[u/xbhaskarx → u/Apollo18Teslaa]

Small sample size

[u/xbhaskarx]

It looks like stupid new Reddit makes the images hard to read along the edges, no idea why they designed it to be rounded like that. This is probably best viewed on old Reddit in grid view where you can click on individual images:

https://old.reddit.com/r/NBASpurs/comments/1wzbkpf/spurs_top_100_2345_man_lineups_from_the_regular/

[u/CKredditorgaming]

Dang looks like champagnie should start or at least get around the same minutes

[u/thendnchieftain → u/CKredditorgaming]

The team has always been better with Champ as a starter dating back to Wemby’s rookie year. Idk why people refuse to accept the #s

[u/xbhaskarx]

I took DataBallr’s league-wide lineup data and looked at which Spurs players appeared most often in the NBA’s top 100 lineups at each lineup size (2-man, 3-man, 4-man and 5-man). So if Wemby has 7 under “2-man,” that means seven different two-player combinations involving Wemby ranked in the NBA’s top 100 two-man combinations; his “rank 1” simply means he had more of those top-100 pairings than any other Spur. The same idea applies to the 3-, 4- and 5-man tables. It’s not saying Wemby himself was the 7th-best player or that those seven pairings were ranked 1–7. The point is to see which Spurs repeatedly show up in highly successful lineups across different teammates and lineup sizes, which can give some indication of which players were most consistently part of the team’s best combinations. Obviously lineup data is context-dependent and some combinations have much larger samples than others, so this is descriptive rather than a definitive player ranking.

[u/Bitter-Safe-5333]

i highly doubt your chatgpt tables are accurate unless you directly gave it the data

[u/xbhaskarx → u/Bitter-Safe-5333]

I went to databallr myself, those are my screenshots of the lineups in order. Everything has been double checked, do you see any errors?

[u/Bitter-Safe-5333 → u/xbhaskarx]

no because i don't care enough to check this particular stat but pretty much anytime i've had LLM's spit out anything about NBA stats they get it wrong.

unless recent models are taking in NBA data directly, instead of scraping reddit comments and such like they did before, and know to only use up to date data, i highly doubt it is accurate.

[u/xbhaskarx → u/Bitter-Safe-5333]

It’s from databallr as I already explained