NBA Supercoach | What Preseason Actually Told Us

Nobody should pick a team off preseason points. Stars play 18 minutes and sit, rookies play 28 because the coach wants a look, and half the box scores come from fourth quarters full of two-way guys. So I threw the raw numbers out. Instead, I ran every preseason box score through SuperCoach scoring and divided by minutes played. That gives each player's SC points per minute. It's the closest thing we have to how productive a player is when he's on the floor, whatever his minutes were. The method This version uses the final preseason box score totals from NBA.com, covering every game for every player. I matched 281 SuperCoach-price