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Top 5 Highest-scoring freshman classes in WFU history:

38.9 ppg. (1979) Rogers (13.5), Morgan (9.0), Helms (8.2), Johnstone (8.2)

36.4 (1991) Rogers (16.3), Childress (14.0), Owens (3.7), Blucas (1.2), Doggett (0.7), King (0.5)

35.1 (2007) Smith (8.7), Williams (8.2), Skeen (7.5), Gurley (6.4), Weaver (2.5), Crawford (1.1),
McFarland (0.7)

35.1 (1998) O’Kelley (16.6), Arinze (7.0), Vidaurreta (4.5), Shoemaker (3.0), Griffin (2.3),
McMillain (1.7)

34.2 (2011) McKie (13.0), Terrell (11.1), Chennault (4.5), Desrosiers (4.0), Tabb (1.6)
 
Do you have the same stat for total point scored divided by team games? I wonder if the results would be the same or if the some of the players' points/game vs. total points is skewed since they may have not played in all the games.
 
What was surprising to me is that despite our horrible offensive output last year, they did that well.

Sleepy, I don't offhand, I just pulled this from the media guide.
 
Do you have the same stat for total point scored divided by team games? I wonder if the results would be the same or if the some of the players' points/game vs. total points is skewed since they may have not played in all the games.

Yeah. Tabb did not score 1.6 points across an entire season. That's a ridiculous stat.
 
Yeah. Tabb did not score 1.6 points across an entire season. That's a ridiculous stat.

He scored 22 points in 14 games...

The stat in the OP is misleading in its context because games played do not seem to be taken into consideration for the averages. A more accurate # (for this purpose: total contribution for the team over the course of a season) for Tabb's contribution would be .6875 PPG. (22 points /32 team games).
 
Percentage points score across the entire season makes much more sense.
 
Top 5 Highest-scoring freshman classes in WFU history:

34.2 (2011) McKie (13.0), Terrell (11.1), Chennault (4.5), Desrosiers (4.0), Tabb (1.6)


More appropriate totals for this analysis (total points scored / 32 team games) for this class in '10-'11:

McKie* = 13.0
Terrell* = 11.1
Chennault = 2.09
Desrosiers = 3.90
Tabb = .69

* = Played in all 32 team games

That changes the average freshman contribution to last years games to 30.78 PPG. The original analysis from the media guide suggested an average of 34.2 PPG. Not a huge difference (~11%); but I would guess applying the same logic to other years data would at least slide the rankings around a little bit.
 
Thanks for calculating that. I was also wondering how they'd stack up as percentage of total team ppg compared to other years but was too lazy to run any numbers.
 
Thanks for calculating that. I was also wondering how they'd stack up as percentage of total team ppg compared to other years but was too lazy to run any numbers.


35.1 (2007) Smith (8.7), Williams (8.2), Skeen (7.5), Gurley (6.4), Weaver (2.5), Crawford (1.1),
McFarland (0.7)


Well... I'll do the most recent example on the list 2007...


2007

Smith* = 8.7
Williams* = 8.2
Skeen* = 7.6
Gurley* = 6.4
Weaver* = 2.5
Mcfarland = .35 (11 points total (appeared in 15 games). 11/31 = .35)
Crawford = .32 (10 points total (appeared in 9 games). 10/31 = .32)

* = appeared in all 31 team games

Total team (all players) average PPG= 73.8
Freshmen PPG= 34.07

% of Points scored by Freshmen = 46.6%



2011

Total team (all players) average PPG= 67.22
Freshman PPG= 30.78

% of Points scored by Freshmen = 45.7%
 
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