I made some modifications to my play-by-play (PBP) tracking code to compile stats on different shot types. Basically, every shot can be classified into the following categories: dunks, layups, tips, hooks, mid-range jumpers, and 3-pt shots. According to my calculations (insert mad scientist grin here), it appears that the shots Hoopdata counts as 0-3 ft from the basket most likely include the dunks, layups, and tips that I track in the PBP code. Hook shots are most likely being included in the 3-9 ft "bin". As per a discussion that started up in one of my posts last week, it seems to make more sense to include hook shots as being inside shots rather than mid-range ones. If we agree on that, then I can neatly categorize "inside" shots (dunks+layups+tips+hooks), mid-range shots (all non-inside 2-pt jumpers), and 3-pt shots using just my PBP code, without needing to utilize Hoopdata. The final article of my new scoring metric series (see inside ratings and mid-range ratings) is taking a bit longer, because I've been incorporating these changes. Expect it some time this weekend. Also, I should note that in the future this will enable me to create some new defensive statistics (for example, which teams or units or players got dunked on the most/least, etc.)

For now, I thought I would give you a peek into what the data look like. Here are the leaders in the various inside shot rates (among players with above average number of possessions):

Top 30 Dunkers (# dunk attempts per 100 possessions)

Here are players who did not record a single dunk attempt last season:

The Never-Dunkers

Warriors Dunk Rates

Top 30 Layup Rates

Bottom 10 Layup Rates

RANK NAME TEAM FGA FG% 228 James Jones MIA 0.07 50.00% 227 Kyle Korver CHI 0.53 56.25% 226 Steve Blake LAL 0.55 43.75% 225 Channing Frye PHX 0.67 69.70% 224 Anthony Parker CLE 0.70 64.29% 223 Raja Bell UTA 0.94 78.38% 222 Matt Bonner SAS 0.95 65.38% 221 Jason Kidd DAL 0.98 58.00% 220 Joel Anthony MIA 1.00 55.56% 219 Mike Bibby ATL 1.00 67.74%

Warriors Layup Rates

It's too bad Amundson has stone hands. Udoh is only slightly more efficient. And Dorell is surprisingly inefficient on layups. Hey, Mark Jackson. Hope you're planning a lot layup drills for these guys.

NAME FGA FG% Acie Law 6.08 63.51% Louis Amundson 5.76 46.15% Monta Ellis 5.72 67.77% David Lee 4.34 61.50% Stephen Curry 3.72 61.41% Reggie Williams 3.56 68.14% Andris Biedrins 2.81 66.67% Dorell Wright 2.63 54.27% Ekpe Udoh 2.06 46.34% Vladimir Radmanovic 1.98 66.67% Brandan Wright 4.63 77.78% Dan Gadzuric 3.83 50.00% Jeff Adrien 6.35 45.83% Al Thornton 3.14 84.21% Rodney Carney 2.11 42.86% Charlie Bell 0.93 33.33% Jeremy Lin 5.73 58.06%

Top 25 Tip-In Rates

The percentages on tip-ins vary over a wide range. Here are the same 25 ordered by efficiency:

RANK NAME FGA FG% 1 Zydrunas Ilgauskas 1.85 65.00% 2 Greg Monroe 1.18 62.50% 3 Amir Johnson 1.43 61.29% 4 Zach Randolph 1.23 60.32% 5 Ben Wallace 1.00 59.09% 6 Kevin Love 1.37 58.33% 7 Darrell Arthur 1.01 58.06% 8 Ryan Anderson 1.19 56.25% 9 Joakim Noah 1.89 55.36% 10 DeAndre Jordan 1.13 54.55% 11 Darko Milicic 1.24 52.38% 12 Jason Thompson 1.49 50.98% 13 Pau Gasol 1.04 49.15% 14 Andrew Bogut 1.94 48.78% 15 Tyson Chandler 0.99 48.72% 16 Andrew Bynum 1.17 46.88% 17 Al Jefferson 1.17 46.88% 18 LaMarcus Aldridge 0.96 46.43% 19 DeJuan Blair 1.38 43.48% 20 Samuel Dalembert 1.25 38.30% 21 Andris Biedrins 1.23 38.24% 22 Spencer Hawes 1.04 38.24% 23 Kris Humphries 1.55 37.93% 24 Marcus Camby 2.01 36.36% 25 Brook Lopez 0.94 34.00%

Warriors Tip-Ins

NAME FGA FG% Dan Gadzuric 2.26 30.77% Louis Amundson 1.77 54.17% Jeff Adrien 1.32 60.00% Andris Biedrins 1.23 38.24% David Lee 0.85 54.55% Ekpe Udoh 0.75 20.00% Vladimir Radmanovic 0.71 31.25% Dorell Wright 0.27 58.82% Brandan Wright 0.26 0.00% Reggie Williams 0.19 33.33% Jeremy Lin 0.18 0.00% Monta Ellis 0.09 16.67% Stephen Curry 0.04 0.00% Acie Law 0.00 0.00% Al Thornton 0.00 0.00% Rodney Carney 0.00 0.00% Charlie Bell 0.00 0.00%

Finally, we have hook shots. Mostly big men on this list, too.

Top 25 Hook Shot Rates

And sorting those by FG%:

RANK NAME FGA FG% 1 Boris Diaw 1.84 61.05% 2 Antawn Jamison 1.50 59.26% 3 Spencer Hawes 2.18 59.15% 4 Kevin Love 1.70 58.43% 5 Blake Griffin 2.08 55.65% 6 Roy Hibbert 6.16 54.21% 7 Shawn Marion 2.14 53.85% 8 Al Horford 2.02 51.49% 9 Brook Lopez 4.18 51.35% 10 Luis Scola 3.17 50.99% 11 Pau Gasol 2.79 50.63% 12 Marc Gasol 2.21 49.53% 13 Dwight Howard 4.78 49.43% 14 Tayshaun Prince 1.65 48.68% 15 Josh Smith 1.82 47.19% 16 LaMarcus Aldridge 2.98 46.55% 17 Jordan Hill 2.72 45.76% 18 Jeff Green 1.59 45.45% 19 Darko Milicic 6.93 45.30% 20 DeMarcus Cousins 1.61 45.21% 21 Andrew Bogut 7.93 44.78% 22 Andris Biedrins 3.28 43.96% 23 Charlie Villanueva 2.06 43.75% 24 David Lee 1.77 43.48% 25 Andrew Bynum 2.96 43.21%

Finally, here are the Warriors.

Warriors Hook Shots

Gadz should not take any hook shots!