NBA · 3 seasons · 48 team-seasons
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Does a team that plays its substitutes more in the regular season get more scoring from them in the playoffs? Every number below is read from a data file in this repository, and its source is printed under it.
ProvisionalThese figures are recalculated from the 48 chart values published with the original article. The values have not been reconciled with raw NBA records, so read the associations as exploratory. Details and known data issues are in the research write-up.
Playing time vs playoff scoring
Each point is one team in one season. Right means substitutes played more in the regular season; up means they scored more in the playoffs. The dashed line is the pooled least-squares fit.
How sure are we?
Correlation (r) with its 95% confidence interval. A bar that crosses zero is consistent with no relationship at all.
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View all 48 data points
| Team | Season | Regular-season bench min | Playoff bench pts |
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Sources and method
- Team-season values: chart-values.json (copied from the original article; 48 rounded records).
- All statistics: audit-results.json, produced by reanalysis.py. The fitted line is computed in your browser from the same 48 points.
- Minutes are average regular-season minutes per bench player per game; points are average playoff points per bench player.