Ranking the Best Defensive Shooting Guards in the NBA  By
(Featured Columnist) on August 19, 2013  41,285 reads   1 of 14
Ronald Martinez/Getty Images  The second part of our five-part
"best defensive players in the league" series ranks the shooting
guards.  All the rankings are based on Weighted Averaged Metrics
(WAM) and Weighted Averaged Metrics with Scouting (WAMS), two
new metrics.  WAM is obtained by compiling various other metrics
that include individual and team stats, on/off advanced stats,
Synergy numbers and traditional defensive numbers. It then
converts all of that into one tidy figure.   With WAMS, each
player was scouted for at least 100-200 defensive plays
(typically about 20 percent of the season) and scored in five
areas. The scouting score was then factored in with the WAM
score. The score represents the estimate of the number of points
a team of like-talented players would give up in 100
possessions.  All the ins and outs of how the numbers are
obtained can be read in the first part of the