Some Revealing PER numbers

[oldhusky]

When I look at the PER (player efficiency ratings) for our players this year vs. last season it shows only one returning player doing better
and that is Paige. With this stat, which adjusts for pace and many other things, 15 is average. Mir, Piath and Amari are only based on
8, 2, and 8 minutes respectively so hardly relevant, but some are significantly lower (Nika), or shockingly so, (Aaliyah and Dorka using Ohio State numbers).

This Year Last year
Paige 38.8 32.0
Christyn 17.6 21.4
Evina 18.2 20.2
Liv 23.2 29.1
Aaliyah 10.2 28.8
Dorka 6.7 25.8
Nika 5.5 11.9
Mir -3.3 21.9
Piath -71.7 11.9
Aubrey --- 26.8
Azzi 20.2
Caroline 9.9
Amari 44.5

These numbers are from Her Hoops, and I wanted to point out that others have said these stats tends to favor bigs which I think is somewhat true.
Also if you look at last year's numbers, most Uconn players did a little better (like a point or two) on in conference games than overall, because Uconn's
schedule is harder out of conference. But that would only explain a relatively small part of these differences. Overall under-performance by a lot when
most young players show pretty good improvement from one year to the next.

 

[mudcat]

When I look at the PER (player efficiency ratings) for our players this year vs. last season it shows only one returning player doing better
and that is Paige. With this stat, which adjusts for pace and many other things, 15 is average. Mir, Piath and Amari are only based on
8, 2, and 8 minutes respectively so hardly relevant, but some are significantly lower (Nika), or shockingly so, (Aaliyah and Dorka using Ohio State numbers).

This Year Last year
Paige 38.8 32.0
Christyn 17.6 21.4
Evina 18.2 20.2
Liv 23.2 29.1
Aaliyah 10.2 28.8
Dorka 6.7 25.8
Nika 5.5 11.9
Mir -3.3 21.9
Piath -71.7 11.9
Aubrey --- 26.8
Azzi 20.2
Caroline 9.9
Amari 44.5

These numbers are from Her Hoops, and I wanted to point out that others have said these stats tends to favor bigs which I think is somewhat true.
Also if you look at last year's numbers, most Uconn players did a little better (like a point or two) on in conference games than overall, because Uconn's
schedule is harder out of conference. But that would only explain a relatively small part of these differences. Overall under-performance by a lot when
most young players show pretty good improvement from one year to the next.

Liv's PER may be down, but I see a lot better player this year than last.

 

[CocoHusky]

Keep in mind that virtually every UCONN player's PER increased as a result of conference play which has not started yet.
I'd be more interested in comparing the PER after the first 7 games of the two seasons.