DAWG — Recorded Actions · Regular season 2011

121 qualified players · data through 2011-09-11

Qualified regular season 2011 players, sorted by DAWG index. Component columns are percentiles against this edition's era-local reference.
#	Player	Pos	Team	Min	DAWG ▾	League	Stability	Steals	Blocks	Offensive rebounds	Assists
1	Natasha Lacy	G	LAS	394	86.2	75.2	78–89	95.5	93.8	88.4	67.0
2	Tamika Catchings	F	IND	1040	78.4	79.8	70–83	95.1	67.7	53.9	97.1
3	Angel McCoughtry	F	ATL	921	78.4	77.7	72–82	97.1	79.4	46.1	91.2
4	Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton	F	CHI	234	75.0	73.8	63–84	63.7	95.1	67.7	73.5
5	Sancho Lyttle	F	ATL	577	72.5	75.0	63–78	99.0	48.0	63.7	79.4
6	Shay Murphy	G	CHI	206	72.3	70.0	62–74	88.4	90.2	99.1	11.6

Provisional and unscored profiles

Provisional profiles (21): below the qualification minutes, not ranked

Provisional regular season 2011 profiles. Component columns are percentiles against this edition's era-local reference.
Player	Pos	Team	Min	DAWG ▾	League	Stability	Steals	Blocks	Offensive rebounds	Assists
Doneeka Lewis	G	TUL	101	71.4	58.7	50–80	55.4	75.0	83.9	71.4
Marion Jones	G	TUL	92	68.3	55.8	57–72	87.5	92.9	87.5	5.4
Allie Quigley	G	SEA	13	67.9	63.2	63–74	57.1

How this is calculated, and what it leaves out

DAWG — Recorded Actions covers four selected recorded box-score actions: steals, blocks, offensive rebounds and assists. It omits unrecorded off-ball work such as screens, box-outs, rotations, deflections and closeouts. It is not the full four-pillar DAWG model, and it does not measure motivation, toughness, complete defensive effectiveness or total player value.

Each component is counted per 40 played minutes, including overtime. The observed rate is count ÷ (minutes ÷ 40). The adjusted rate blends that record with the league population, using a Gamma–Poisson model fitted on nearby seasons (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013) and never on the season being scored. Fewer minutes means more pull toward the league average; with many minutes the adjusted and observed rates nearly agree. For high-minute passers the pull is slightly too strong: on the 2026 holdout their adjusted assist rates predicted about 5% worse than their observed rates.

Each player is judged against her own position. Guards, forwards and centres come from her team's roster listing that season (the first letter of a hybrid such as G-F), not from the stats being ranked, so a guard's blocks are compared with other guards' and a centre's assists with other centres'. The DAWG index averages these position-relative percentiles; the league index beside it uses the whole league.

The league-wide reference is frozen and era-local: REG player-seasons in 2011 with at least 170 minutes and all four components observed (121 player-seasons, reference 5e580cdc2249). League rates have changed a lot since 1997 (assists per 40 are roughly 25–35% higher today), so a player is compared with her own era, and the index is not an absolute comparison across eras. The index is the plain average of the four component percentiles, with equal weights chosen as a first-version policy rather than learned basketball values. It is an average of percentiles, not the percentile of the index itself, a probability or points added. If any component is missing, the index is not shown, and the remaining components are never re-weighted.

Turnovers, personal fouls and defensive rebounds are shown separately and are not subtracted. Their meaning depends on role and game context, so the index is a positive-activity profile, not net value.

Covers four selected recorded box-score actions only; unrecorded off-ball work (screens, box-outs, rotations, deflections, closeouts) is omitted.
Percentiles compare each player with her own position group (guards, forwards or centres, from her team's roster listing) in the same era; they are not absolute comparisons across eras or positions. The league-wide index is shown alongside.