The Cleveland Cavaliers in 2008-09

After 31 games (team has won 26 games)

WP48 = Wins Produced per 48 minutes

Projected Wins Produced = Wins Produced * 82/31

Data taken from Basketball-Reference.com

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Cleveland

Minutes

Wins

Produced

07-08

WP48

07-08

Projected

Wins Produced

07-08

Wins

Produced

08-09

WP48

08-09

Projected

Wins Produced

08-09

Change

LeBron James

1136

7.6

0.323

20.2

9.7

0.409

25.6

5.4

Anderson Varejao**

806

3.0

0.181

8.0

3.9

0.234

10.4

2.3

Delonte West

1045

3.3

0.150

8.7

3.7

0.170

9.8

1.1

Ben Wallace**

762

4.5

0.281

11.8

3.6

0.225

9.4

-2.3

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

735

2.5

0.160

6.5

3.2

0.207

8.4

1.9

Maurice Williams

1012

2.6

0.122

6.8

2.7

0.130

7.2

0.4

Wally Szczerbiak

543

-0.3

-0.027

-0.8

0.5

0.047

1.4

2.2

J.J. Hickson*

186

0.3

0.073

0.7

0.3

0.073

0.7

0.0

Daniel Gibson

624

0.6

0.048

1.7

0.2

0.015

0.5

-1.1

Tarence Kinsey**

62

0.0

0.031

0.1

0.2

0.126

0.4

0.3

Sasha Pavlovic

387

-0.9

-0.108

-2.3

0.1

0.011

0.2

2.5

Jawad Williams*

4

0.0

0.125

0.0

0.0

0.125

0.0

0.0

Lorenzen Wright**

28

0.0

-0.071

-0.1

-0.2

-0.276

-0.4

-0.3

Darnell Jackson*

109

-0.5

-0.226

-1.4

-0.5

-0.226

-1.4

0.0

Summation

22.7

59.9

27.4

72.4

12.4

* - Player is either a rookie, or has limited (recent) NBA history, so 07-08 numbers are the same as 08-09

**- player was either injured, and/or played limited minutes in 07-08, so 06-07 numbers are used for 07-08