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Message: [QUOTE="YKCornelius, post: 5355359, member: 9864"] Puppy Love, I would argue that the penalty for missed FG attempts is the same regardless of whether it was a 3 or a 2 point shot. In either case you get zero points. I am also confused by your first sentence: how does one player have more misses than a second player who makes an equal number of shots? That's an incongruent statement. I think you meant to say "a strictly 2 point shooter who [B]takes[/B] an equal number of shots", correct? If so, you are correct that the three point shooter could have a greater scoring efficiency while even missing more shots, but I would suggest that is part of the beauty of DavidinNaples' findings. Said differently, the simplicity of his calculus illustrates that there is utility to look at the number of shots taken and made by a player, and not just how many points she averaged or what her FG and FT percentages might be. A different storyline can often emerge. I will illustrate what I mean in my response to him. [/QUOTE]