Fun Player Swap Tool

by Serious Garbage Time on Feb 5, 2010 3:38 PM EST

Check out the Player Swap Tool at Queen City Hoops here. It lets you see how different a team would play if you swapped a player from that team for one from another team. I know the NBA Trade Machine does a similar analysis but this one works even if a trade doesn't.

Some interesting findings (to me anyway):

-- He Who Shall Not Be Named would only get us to 45 wins if swapped for He Who You Can Call Al. Yes, that's a huge improvement, but it's not exactly contending. However, if you swapped HWSNBN for Starbucks, it gets us up to 64 wins. Donnie should make a call and see if he can make that trade.

-- Swapping Saint Lee for Bawrsh only gets us 3 more wins, and I think that's pushing it. In any case, I don't think it's worth watching Bawrsh's oddly shaped noggin on a regular basis and using all of our cap room.

-- Swapping Lady DuDu for Sergio Rodriguez would make us a 45 win team. Swapping Lady DuDu for Jose Calderon would make us a 43 win team. Lesson: Go Spanish, preferably at bargain rates. (Then again, swapping Lady DuDu for T.J. Ford would make us a 43 win team, so maybe it doesn't matter who you swap him for.)

-- If you swap out Jordan Hill for Brandon Jennings that would make the Knicks a 64 win team. I'm pretty sure that result dooms any claim of reliability for this little tool.

Anyway, enjoy!

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That's fun

But I think it favors guards…..

It said the Knicks are better with Gallinari than with Brook Lopez (I like!)

But it also said the Knicks would be better with Eric Gordon than with Gallo…. (I no like)

It also said that the Magic would be better off with Monta Ellis than they are with Dwight Howard…..

by fuhry on Feb 5, 2010 4:58 PM EST reply actions

Good point

I guess the big problem is when a team has a terrible backcourt (like the Knicks and Magic), picking up a serviceable point guard creates an outsized improvement. I wonder if that’s true in real life.

In any case, I also checked the Cock-Anderson switch and they’re pretty close (only 2 more wins) and I think that’s more because we have no real shooting guard and Ill Will can Fill in at small forward.

"Dishin' and swishin' in transition"

by Serious Garbage Time on Feb 5, 2010 5:31 PM EST up reply actions