“Empty Tanks: The Hidden Cost of Star Absences on NBA Team Performance Revealed!”
To avoid undermining our analysis with teams that played little/no starless games, we filtered out all teams that did not play at least five games without two of their three best players in a given season.
We also calculated win percentage difference by subtracting/adding their starless/opponent starless win percentage by their season-long win percentage.
Lastly, weâre looking back to 2012 and the start of DRIP database.
With these parameters, let’s take a look at the results.
NBA Lineups: Let the Stars Shine
A quick data interpretation lesson for the less fluent out there: The Pearson correlation coefficient (r) is the most common way of measuring a linear correlation. The ârâ is a number between -1 and 1 that determines the strength/direction of a correlation between two variables. If an ârâ coefficient is close to 1 or -1, it indicates a strong positive/negative correlation. If the ârâ is closer to 0, that means the correlation is weak/nonexistent.
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