The Hawks Against Opponents of Quality

I'm not entirely satisfied with how I presented this information yesterday and I believe I have set things up so I can update these splits after every game so that this can be a recurring feature comparing the team's performance against teams above and below .500.

First, general efficiency:

Opponent	Off Eff	Def Eff	Margin
under .500	113.3	98.4	+14.9
over .500	98	104.3	-6.3

Next, shooting and scoring:

Opponent	TS%	2PT%	3PT%	3PTA/FGA	FT Rate	FT%
under .500	55.2	48.5	39.9	.237	22.4	76.2
over .500	50.3	44.7	38.4	.207	16.7	69.3

Obviously, the next step is to look at shot location data broken down by quality of opponent. I'll get to that when I can carve out a couple of hours to compile the data accurately. I'm not foolish enough to promise when that will be.

About a third of the decline in Free Throw Rate against teams above .500 is due to the team's inferior free throw percentage in those games.

Shooting and scoring defense:

Opponent	TS%	2PT%	3PT%	3PTA/FGA	FT Rate	FT%
under .500	50.4	45.1	33.5	.222	23.4	79.7
over .500	51.3	46.4	36.1	.196	23.5	73.6

Finally, rebounding and turnovers:

Opponent	OR%	DR%	TO%	Opp TO%
under .500	28.8	76.2	14.7	17.5
over .500	20.2	73.7	15	15.1

The differences in the above table are stark.