After yesterday's post displaying the Percent Valuable Contributions (PVC) chart for the Minnesota Lynx in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, JustineL requested the same for the Atlanta Dream.
And it sort of requires some explanation as you'll probably see below:
Obviously, that's only five players...because the rest of the roster made "negative contributions", as you'll see in the table below:
|
Atl |
PVC (MEV%) |
|
Tiffany Hayes - F |
-9.07% |
|
Angel McCoughtry - F |
-17.89% |
|
Erika de Souza - C |
37.28% |
|
Armintie Herrington - G |
15.15% |
|
Jasmine Thomas - G |
2.26% |
|
Aneika Henry |
81.30% |
|
Alex Bentley |
-8.91% |
|
Lecoe Willingham |
-1.53% |
|
Ruth Riley |
1.39% |
|
Courtney Clements |
0.00% |
PVC data for the Atlanta Dream in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals.
In each case of negativity, the reason was simple: a lot of missed shots and not many other positive things to make up for them. The only thing saving Jasmine Thomas from negativity was three offensive rebounds and a couple of steals.
All that negativity of why it's possible for two players (Aneika Henry and Erika de Souza) to combine for more than 100% of the contributions to the team's performance: they were "making up" for all the negative performances, which broke the chart.
In short, it was not a good performance and there's really no reason to expect they'll perform that poorly twice in one series regardless of the outcome.
For a look at the Lynx's chart, check out yesterday's post on their performance.