The LA Lakers in 2008-09

After 30 games (team has won 25 games)

WP48 = Wins Produced per 48 minutes

Projected Wins Produced = Wins Produced * 82/30

Data taken from Basketball-Reference.com

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LA Lakers

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

Pau Gasol

1,016

5.8

0.273

15.8

5.7

0.271

15.7

-0.1

Kobe Bryant

1,060

5.6

0.255

15.4

5.0

0.226

13.6

-1.8

Trevor Ariza

733

3.7

0.245

10.2

4.1

0.271

11.3

1.1

Andrew Bynum

857

7.0

0.394

19.2

3.8

0.211

10.3

-9.0

Derek Fisher

881

0.8

0.043

2.2

2.0

0.106

5.3

3.2

Lamar Odom

795

3.6

0.220

10.0

1.4

0.085

3.8

-6.1

Sasha Vujacic

455

1.1

0.113

2.9

0.9

0.099

2.6

-0.3

Vladimir Radmanovic

497

0.7

0.064

1.8

0.9

0.083

2.4

0.6

Jordan Farmar

491

1.3

0.125

3.5

0.3

0.034

0.9

-2.6

Josh Powell

86

0.1

0.036

0.2

0.2

0.139

0.7

0.5

Chris Mihm

48

-0.1

-0.125

-0.3

0.2

0.214

0.6

0.9

Didier Ilunga-Mbenga

3

0.0

-0.083

0.0

0.0

-0.510

-0.1

-0.1

Luke Walton

266

0.6

0.100

1.5

-0.1

-0.012

-0.2

-1.7

Sun Yue*

12

-0.2

-0.643

-0.4

-0.2

-0.643

-0.4

0.0

Summation

29.9

81.9

24.3

66.5

-15.4

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