Team by Team Leaders in drawing Offensive Fouls

All right, the league leaders are fun, but you want to know who's been getting knocked to the floor most often on a team by team basis, and also whether offensive fouls have any correlation with team success.

Last year the top teams in drawing offensive fouls were:

1. Chicago
2. Utah
3. Phoenix

 Team         Off.Fls  Off.Fls     Net
              Drawn    Committed
 Phoenix 	265 	166 	  +99
 Chicago 	254 	203 	  +51
 New Jersey 	240 	162 	  +78
 Golden State 	237 	151 	  +86
 Indiana 	235 	188 	  +47
 Utah 	        217 	184 	  +33
 Toronto 	216 	150 	  +66
 Dallas 	207 	148 	  +59
 Milwaukee 	203 	157 	  +46
 Miami 	        198 	175 	  +23
 Cleveland 	197 	169 	  +28
 Philadelphia 	195 	165 	  +30
 Washington 	184 	193 	  -9
 San Antonio 	181 	148 	  +33
 Denver 	180 	201 	  -21
 Charlotte 	170 	167 	  +3
 Memphis 	168 	185 	  -17
 Sacramento 	162 	167 	  -5
 L.A. Lakers 	158 	175 	  -17
 Orlando 	153 	179 	  -26
 Atlanta 	151 	197 	  -46
 New Orleans 	150 	167 	  -17
 New York 	149 	269 	  -120
 Houston 	147 	138 	  +9
 Boston 	138 	212 	  -74
 Minnesota 	137 	182 	  -45
 Detroit 	117 	150 	  -33
 Portland 	112 	226 	  -114
 Seattle 	107 	176 	  -69
 L.A. Clippers 	106 	203 	  -97

So two of last year's top three are right back in the high life, while Utah has dropped only slightly to sixth. Hmmm, seems like there's a pretty strong year to year pattern here!

Now last year there wasn't a huge correlation between charges drawn and wins, but this season it is up some:

.52 Net offensive fouls (drawn minus committed)
.41 Offensive Fouls Drawn
-.45 Offensive Fouls Committed

We'll have more to say about fouls in future articles, but to summarize it looks like this:

1. players who are among the leaders in offensive fouls drawn are likely to have positive on court/off court influence

2. the correlation between team totals for drawing offensive fouls and net offensive fouls to wins is quite significant this season (although less so last season)

3. it takes one bad ass/crazy dude to stand in the way of an NBA superstar driving full speed to the basket!

..oh and yes Knicks fans, Eddy Curry did lead the league in offensive fouls committed by a very large margin.

See? This is the BS I'm talking about. Curry leads the league in offensive fouls committed. So in order to not foul out, he doesn't bother trying on defense... Ey Curry is 100% the main reason why we have the worst margin in the entire league and committed the most offensive fouls in the league by over 40. Pathetic.

Can you lovers finally admit that Curry is a joke of a center?

We're -120 in that category, which is last in the league by far.

We need some floppers.

a few thoughts...

40 more offensive fouls than the second-worst team? wow.

some of the teams at the top of the list at drawing charges are teams that don't have good shotblocking. the situations aren't totally correlated, but IT may be right that shotblocking is overrated... but you need another way to stop penetrators. we don't have it. teams like NJ get by, but we can't with what we have in our big men.

[Edited by - Masterplan on 05-09-2007 10:59 AM]

We had that article about bias and refs- I think a greater bias that refs have is the perceived nature of a team- i.e., winners vs. loosers.

We're perceived as loosers and many calls go against and not for us.

Curry is called for offensive fouls while shaq does the same thing and no call is made.

That doesn't explain it, but I think the effect amplifies what is already in place.

Charges alone are not an indicator of how good your defense is. It shows hustle and players willing to play team defense but so do a lot of other things that don't show up in the stat sheet. If you have a good perimeter defensive team and a strong shotblocking presence you may block less shots. If your D is designed to keep the ball on the perimeter you may draw less charges. If you play great on the ball d you may draw less charges. I've had teams that couldn't guard a chair. Knowing this we funneled eveything to one spot on the floor. This resulted in a lot of charges. We were still the worst defensive team in the leauge. This stat by itself is meaningless.

[Edited by - bippity10 on 09-05-2007 1:58 PM]

Isiah is working on that. Two years in a row Isiah has drafted white players. Last year was David Lee and this year was Balkman.

Posted by Bippity10:

Isiah is working on that. Two years in a row Isiah has drafted white players. Last year was David Lee and this year was Balkman.

That makes 3 with Mardy.

Posted by NYKBocker:

Posted by Bippity10:

Isiah is working on that. Two years in a row Isiah has drafted white players. Last year was David Lee and this year was Balkman.

That makes 3 with Mardy.

Thanks for that. I forgot about him.

Posted by martin:

Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by NYKBocker:

Posted by Bippity10:

Isiah is working on that. Two years in a row Isiah has drafted white players. Last year was David Lee and this year was Balkman.

That makes 3 with Mardy.

Thanks for that. I forgot about him.

did you guys forget about Morris? 4.

Dude, your an idiot. Morris is black.

The basic problem is that Eddy Curry is fat. If he loses some weight, these stats will improve.