The Denver Nuggets in 2008-09

After 35 games (team has won 23 games)

WP48 = Wins Produced per 48 minutes

Projected Wins Produced = Wins Produced * 82/35

Data taken from Basketball-Reference.com

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Denver

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

Nene Hilario**

1,136

3.7

0.158

8.7

5.0

0.211

11.7

2.9

Chauncey Billups

1,100

7.0

0.304

16.3

4.8

0.210

11.3

-5.0

J.R. Smith

877

1.8

0.097

4.2

2.4

0.132

5.6

1.5

Carmelo Anthony

1,029

3.4

0.156

7.9

2.3

0.105

5.3

-2.6

Anthony Carter

812

2.2

0.129

5.1

2.2

0.132

5.2

0.1

Chris Andersen***

447

1.2

0.132

2.9

2.0

0.211

4.6

1.7

Kenyon Martin

1,027

1.1

0.050

2.5

1.5

0.069

3.4

0.9

Renaldo Balkman

316

1.0

0.149

2.3

1.4

0.214

3.3

1.0

Dahntay Jones**

633

-0.1

-0.010

-0.3

0.4

0.027

0.8

1.1

Allen Iverson

123

0.3

0.134

0.8

0.2

0.064

0.4

-0.4

Linas Kleiza

766

0.0

-0.001

-0.1

0.1

0.005

0.2

0.2

Juwan Howard

22

-0.1

-0.114

-0.1

0.0

0.064

0.1

0.2

Chucky Atkins

114

-0.1

-0.041

-0.2

0.0

-0.004

0.0

0.2

Cheik Samb*

24

-0.1

-0.209

-0.2

-0.1

-0.209

-0.2

0.0

Summation

21.2

49.7

22.1

51.7

2.0

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

**-player had limited minutes last season, so 2006-07 WP48 was used for 07-08

***-Chris Andersen’s WP48 is from 2005-06, the last season he played more than 100 minutes in a season