Plaisted's improvement from Fresh-Junior yrs - cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board

Spaz · 03-12-2008, 07:55 PM

Was reading a post on another board claiming Plaisted hasn't improved since his Freshman year, and asked the poster claiming otherwise to examine the difference in numbers per minute played from Fresh to Junior years. It was the poster's claim that Trent declined his sophomore year, and his apparant improvement this year from his Sophomore year to his Junior year equates to him being roughly the same as he was his Freshman year.

At any rate, I took the bait, and silliness aside, here's the results, posted on this board because I can't post on the other at work.

Year PPM RPM APM TOPM BlkPM
Frosh 0.48 0.24 3.42 8.67 3.30
Soph 0.44 0.21 4.09 5.73 4.71
Jun 0.58 0.30 5.67 8.50 3.54

Note that I factored the last three columns by 100 in order to not have such small fractions...

MikeWaters · 03-12-2008, 08:05 PM

why can't people make graphs? how hard is it to make graphs?

Spaz · 03-12-2008, 09:12 PM

Yeah - I don't know how to post a graph. I had one in my Excel file. Sorry. If there's an easy way, let me know and I'd be happy to do so.

Basically, the increase is as follows, from Freshman to Junior years:

Points per minute: 121%
Rebounds per minute: 121%
Assists per minute: 166%
Turnovers per minute: 98% (or a 2% decrease)
Blk per minute: 107%.

jay santos · 03-12-2008, 09:17 PM

Better rebounder and better passer. Not much significant improvement, otherwise. Sounds about right.

MikeWaters · 03-12-2008, 09:22 PM

output your graph as a JPG file and then host it on photobucket. People swoon when they see a BYU graph.

MikeWaters · 03-12-2008, 09:23 PM

Let's compare his improvement with the Wesley kid.

03-12-2008, 07:55 PM	#1
Spaz Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,371	Plaisted's improvement from Fresh-Junior yrs Was reading a post on another board claiming Plaisted hasn't improved since his Freshman year, and asked the poster claiming otherwise to examine the difference in numbers per minute played from Fresh to Junior years. It was the poster's claim that Trent declined his sophomore year, and his apparant improvement this year from his Sophomore year to his Junior year equates to him being roughly the same as he was his Freshman year. At any rate, I took the bait, and silliness aside, here's the results, posted on this board because I can't post on the other at work. Year PPM RPM APM TOPM BlkPM Frosh 0.48 0.24 3.42 8.67 3.30 Soph 0.44 0.21 4.09 5.73 4.71 Jun 0.58 0.30 5.67 8.50 3.54 Note that I factored the last three columns by 100 in order to not have such small fractions...

03-12-2008, 08:05 PM	#2
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	why can't people make graphs? how hard is it to make graphs?

03-12-2008, 09:12 PM	#3
Spaz Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,371	Yeah - I don't know how to post a graph. I had one in my Excel file. Sorry. If there's an easy way, let me know and I'd be happy to do so. Basically, the increase is as follows, from Freshman to Junior years: Points per minute: 121% Rebounds per minute: 121% Assists per minute: 166% Turnovers per minute: 98% (or a 2% decrease) Blk per minute: 107%.

03-12-2008, 09:17 PM	#4
jay santos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,177	Better rebounder and better passer. Not much significant improvement, otherwise. Sounds about right.

03-12-2008, 09:22 PM	#5
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	output your graph as a JPG file and then host it on photobucket. People swoon when they see a BYU graph.

03-12-2008, 09:23 PM	#6
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Let's compare his improvement with the Wesley kid.