NumberFire Breaks Down Mavericks Offseason Moves

Have the Mavericks actually improved on last year’s roster?

The Dallas Mavericks have made quite a few headlines this offseason. Some good, some bad, some falling squarely in the middle.

The DeAndre Jordan fiasco aside though, Dallas was able to make some positive moves by injecting some youth, shooting, and perimeter defense into the roster.

NumberFire, a company that “uses the powers of quantitative analysis to be the world’s most accurate predictor of sports performance” offered up their take on the Mavericks’ offseason transactions using their own efficiency metric, which they call nERD.

Basically they took last year’s nERD of every player (sans rookies) with whom the Mavericks parted ways this summer, and compared the results to the nERD of every player the Mavericks acquired to get a net nERD for the franchise.

Here’s how things shook out:

NumberFire’s assessment of Dallas’ offseason moves

Author Russell Peddle writes:

"The most memorable part of the Dallas Mavericks’ 2015 offseason will be the DeAndre Jordan deal that didn’t happen. While his monstrous 14.1 nERD (fifth-best in the league) would’ve put them in the conversation for best offseason in the Association, they still did alright for themselves by picking up solidly nERDy (albeit uninspiring) players like Zaza Pachulia and Jeremy Evans, while getting rid of nERD blackholes like Rajon Rondo and Monta Ellis. If Wesley Matthews can have a successful comeback from his Achilles injury and the change of scenery manages to reinvigorate Deron Williams, the Mavs should still manage to occupy that space of being a 50-win team, but not quite a title contender. Could be worse."

Based on numberFire’s analysis the Mavericks could again flirt with a .600 winning perentage despite losing their leading scorer from 2014-15, the best center in franchise history, and having their free agency period hijacked by a fickle five-man.

That would be an impressive feat.

For more analysis make sure to check out the whole article here, which covers the entire Southwest Division. The results may surprise you a bit.

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