NBA assists/rebounds

**Justin7** · 01-17-11, 12:49 PM

I like your second approach better for assists. For rebounds, I'd use game pace / average pace instead of team totals.

**vicwootn** · 01-17-11, 01:29 PM

cool thanks a lot!

so for rebounds the full equation is player's RPG*opp's RPG allowed/league RPG allowed*game pace/average pace ?

**Justin7** · 01-17-11, 02:12 PM

Yes, that is a pretty good estimate.

**Data** · 01-17-11, 05:19 PM

Originally posted by vicwootn

I have heard for pricing NBA assists props that,

player's APG*opp's APG allowed/league APG allowed

should be used. I have to think that team total/pace largely effect the number of assists. Does anyone else feel this way? What about using this instead?

player's APG*opp's APG allowed/league APG allowed*team total/average points per team

I think that

player's APG*team total/average points per team

makes more sense. "opp's APG allowed" does not indicate the opposing team's ability to prevent assists, which would be a senseless metric, but rather shows what type of teams they played.