The Denver Nuggets in 2008-09

After 70 games (team has won 45 games)

WP48 = Wins Produced per 48 minutes

Projected Wins Produced = Wins Produced * 82/70

Data taken from Basketball-Reference.com

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Denver

Minutes

Wins

Produced

WP48

Projected

Wins Produced

Wins

Produced

WP48

Projected

Wins Produced

Change

Chauncey Billups

2,310

14.6

0.304

17.1

9.0

0.188

10.6

-6.5

Nene Hilario**

2,204

7.2

0.158

8.5

8.9

0.194

10.4

1.9

Chris Andersen***

1,149

3.1

0.132

3.7

6.3

0.263

7.4

3.7

J.R. Smith

1,934

3.9

0.097

4.6

5.1

0.127

6.0

1.4

Carmelo Anthony

1,862

6.1

0.156

7.1

4.3

0.110

5.0

-2.1

Renaldo Balkman

630

1.9

0.149

2.3

4.2

0.323

5.0

2.7

Anthony Carter

1,546

4.2

0.129

4.9

4.0

0.124

4.7

-0.2

Kenyon Martin

1,865

2.0

0.050

2.3

1.6

0.042

1.9

-0.4

Dahntay Jones**

1,248

-0.2

-0.007

-0.2

1.1

0.041

1.3

1.5

Allen Iverson

123

0.3

0.134

0.4

0.2

0.070

0.2

-0.2

Jason Hart

14

0.0

-0.049

0.0

0.1

0.316

0.1

0.1

Chucky Atkins

115

-0.1

-0.041

-0.1

0.1

0.022

0.1

0.2

Juwan Howard

22

-0.1

-0.114

-0.1

0.0

0.066

0.0

0.1

Cheik Samb*

24

-0.1

-0.206

-0.1

-0.1

-0.206

-0.1

0.0

Johan Petro

151

-0.1

-0.023

-0.1

-0.3

-0.097

-0.4

-0.3

Sonny Weems*

41

-0.4

-0.461

-0.5

-0.4

-0.461

-0.5

0.0

Linas Kleiza

1,614

0.3

0.010

0.4

-0.7

-0.020

-0.8

-1.2

Summation

42.8

50.2

43.4

50.8

0.7

* - 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