The Chicago Bulls in 2008-09

After 35 games (team has won 15 games)

WP48 = Wins Produced per 48 minutes

Projected Wins Produced = Wins Produced * 82/35

Data taken from Basketball-Reference.com

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Chicago

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

Joakim Noah

598

1.9

0.154

4.5

2.8

0.226

6.6

2.1

Ben Gordon

1,279

1.5

0.057

3.6

2.5

0.094

5.9

2.3

Derrick Rose*

1,301

2.5

0.090

5.7

2.5

0.090

5.7

0.0

Aaron Gray

506

0.2

0.020

0.5

1.5

0.145

3.6

3.1

Drew Gooden

751

2.4

0.153

5.6

1.5

0.094

3.4

-2.2

Larry Hughes

723

0.2

0.015

0.5

1.3

0.089

3.1

2.6

Thabo Sefolosha

467

0.9

0.092

2.1

1.1

0.114

2.6

0.5

Luol Deng

869

2.4

0.134

5.7

1.1

0.060

2.5

-3.2

Tyrus Thomas

732

1.1

0.073

2.6

0.8

0.055

2.0

-0.7

Kirk Hinrich

147

0.3

0.092

0.7

0.3

0.112

0.8

0.1

Cedric Simmons

55

-0.1

-0.106

-0.3

0.1

0.054

0.1

0.4

Demetris Nichols

5

0.0

-0.070

0.0

-0.1

-0.779

-0.2

-0.2

Lindsey Hunter

206

-0.2

-0.046

-0.5

-0.3

-0.064

-0.6

-0.2

Andres Nocioni

837

-1.1

-0.063

-2.6

-1.6

-0.093

-3.8

-1.2

Summation

12.0

28.1

13.6

31.8

3.6

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