SportVU makes it fairly easy to see a player’s skill at grabbing contested rebounds. For this calculation I only use players with at least 10 REB chances per game. Also, I’m going to assume that uncontested rebounds chances have fairly close to 100% success rate.
To get what I call a player’s “Percentage of contested rebounds per chance” I subtracted a players “uncontested rebounds per game” from their “rebound chances per game,” to get a value for “contested rebound chances per game”. This assumes that any rebound chance a player didn’t convert on must have been contested (I know this is far from perfect, but it’s the only thing we have). Then I divide their “contested rebounds per game” from the “contested rebound chances” to get a player’s proficiency at fighting for boards.
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Thanks for the link and these numbers. I'd be curious how the average height, weight (somewhat to strength) , reach and vertical of the top 10 guys compares to the league's big man averages. Which demographic characteristic is most highly correlated to contested rebound success?
There are a few expected names in the bottom 10 (Lopez, Smith) and a few surprises to me (Splitter, maybe Varejao).
Varejao is getting just 57% of the rebounds he was getting last year, both on offense and on defense.
His TReb% is lowest of his career, at 13.4, barely above NBA average for a forward.
