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100103 · WNBA 1997 — Beyond the Box

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SportsDataverse / WNBA StatsREG · 1997 · Coverage: partial · Freshness: unknown · Publication: partialSource as of: Aug 30, 1997 · Data through: Aug 30, 1997

Shot zones · 1997

No regular-season shot locations for 1997.

Shooting splits

Shooting splits for the selected season. An em dash means the value is unavailable.
Split	Made–att.	Value	Pctl
Field goals	109–270	40.4%	—
Threes	4–21	19.0%	29
Free throws	27–35	77.1%	—
True shooting	—	43.6%	32
Effective FG	—	41.1%	38
3PA rate	—	0.08	41
FT rate	—	0.13	5

Chart data by season
Season	Value
1997	43.6%
1998	51.8%
1999	49.4%
2000	52.9%
2001	49.5%
2002	54.1%
2003	55.8%

True shooting by season

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Regular season 1997

42.6Qualified · #47 of 72 (#25 of 37 guards)

Average of four component percentiles, 0–100, against her position in the same era; against every position it is 36.5. Compared with guards: her team's roster listing this season. Game-resample stability range 35.1–49.4 (not a credible interval).

Qualified: 787 minutes meets the 140-minute display threshold.

Four index components for regular season 1997: recorded count, rates per 40 minutes and percentile against this edition's era-local reference (computed from the adjusted rate). An em dash means the value is unavailable.
Component	Count	Observed /40	Adjusted /40	80% range	Pctl (pos)	Pctl (league)
Steals	19	0.97	1.09	0.83–1.37	4.0	6.3
Blocks	4	0.20	0.24	0.12–0.38	36.5	18.8
Offensive rebounds	46	2.34	2.31	1.90–2.74	87.8	54.9
Assists	66	3.35	3.33	2.83–3.85	41.9	66.0

How much each estimate leans on the league

Steals: 79% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 21% from the league population.
Blocks: 92% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 8% from the league population.

Draft

Undrafted, or no draft record is published.

Career by season

Published regular-season lines by season, newest first; one row per team. An em dash means the value is unavailable.
Season	Team	GP	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	GS	FG%	3P%	FT%	TS%	USG%	AST%
2009	San Antonio Silver Stars	32	22.9	6.4	3.4	2.4	0.5	0.1	—	43.2%	37.5%	85.2%	51.8%	—	—
2008	San Antonio Silver Stars	32	27.9	6.7	5.3

Accompanying diagnostics (not in the index)

Box-score diagnostics shown beside the index; none are added or subtracted.
Recorded action	Count	Observed /40
Defensive rebounds	64	3.25
Turnovers	49	2.49
Personal fouls	52	2.64

Turnovers with a credited steal: 24
Turnovers without a credited steal: 25
Offensive fouls committed: 3
Charges drawn: Unsupported: the feed does not name the player who drew the foul
Late, close steals / blocks: 0 / 0
Overtime steals / blocks: 0 / 0

Play-by-play steals, blocks, rebounds, assists and turnovers match the box score across 26 games. “Late, close” means the last five minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime with the score within five before the event. A turnover without a credited steal is not necessarily a dead ball. Per-possession rates are not shown because on-court time is not independently verified.

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Postseason 1997

56.8Provisional

Average of four component percentiles, 0–100, against her position in the same era; against every position it is 55.0. Compared with guards: her team's roster listing this season. Game-resample stability range 43.2–56.8 (not a credible interval).

Provisional: 68 minutes is below the 150-minute display threshold. The profile is shown but is not ranked; limited minutes pull estimates toward the league.

Four index components for postseason 1997: recorded count, rates per 40 minutes and percentile against this edition's era-local reference (computed from the adjusted rate). An em dash means the value is unavailable.
Component	Count	Observed /40	Adjusted /40	80% range	Pctl (pos)	Pctl (league)
Steals	2	1.18	1.39	0.89–1.94	31.8	45.0
Blocks	1	0.59	0.66	0.18–1.27	81.8	60.0
Offensive rebounds	5	2.94	2.37	1.44–3.40	100.0	80.0
Assists	4	2.35	2.57	1.42–3.88	13.6	35.0

How much each estimate leans on the league

Steals: 21% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 79% from the league population.
Blocks: 55% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 45% from the league population.
Offensive rebounds: 43% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 57% from the league population.
Assists: 64% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 36% from the league population.

Minutes: 68
Appearances: 2
Team: NYL 68 min, 2 gp
Data through: 1997-08-30
Compared with: PST 1997–1999, 20 players

Accompanying diagnostics (not in the index)

Box-score diagnostics shown beside the index; none are added or subtracted.
Recorded action	Count	Observed /40
Defensive rebounds	7	4.12
Turnovers	2	1.18
Personal fouls	6	3.53

Turnovers with a credited steal: 1
Turnovers without a credited steal: 1
Offensive fouls committed: 0
Charges drawn: Unsupported: the feed does not name the player who drew the foul
Late, close steals / blocks: 0 / 0
Overtime steals / blocks: 0 / 0

Play-by-play steals, blocks, rebounds, assists and turnovers match the box score across 2 games. “Late, close” means the last five minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime with the score within five before the event. A turnover without a credited steal is not necessarily a dead ball. Per-possession rates are not shown because on-court time is not independently verified.

DAWG — Recorded Actions by season

Every season and phase with a DAWG profile for this player. Each index is relative to that season's players (or, for postseasons, pooled nearby postseasons).
Season	Phase	Pos	DAWG	League	Rank	Min	State
1997	Regular	G	42.6	36.5	47	787	Qualified
1997	Post	G	56.8	55.0	—	68	Provisional
1998	Regular	G	54.4	46.9	33	905	Qualified
1999	Regular	F	42.4	45.0	74	1080	Qualified
1999	Post	F	30.2	31.3	10	185	Qualified
2000	Regular	F	28.7	32.5	148	1023	Qualified
2000	Post	F	49.0	43.4	4	236	Qualified
2001	Regular	G	39.3	40.2	119	939	Qualified
2001	Post	G	72.2	63.6	3	218	Qualified
2002	Regular	G	37.9	36.0	128	1026	Qualified
2002	Post	G	34.8	35.8	14	244	Qualified
2003	Regular	G	38.6	34.1	104	1046	Qualified
2004	Regular	G	41.8	34.8	92	1119	Qualified
2004	Post	G	60.4	56.6	6	161	Qualified
2005	Regular	G	35.0	33.6	106	1023	Qualified
2005	Post	G	33.0	32.1	—	73	Provisional
2006	Regular	G	51.5	46.3	73	999	Qualified
2007	Regular	G	68.4	60.9	14	850	Qualified
2007	Post	G	71.0	61.6	2	165	Qualified
2008	Regular	G	52.5	44.6	62	892	Qualified
2008	Post	G	35.9	40.0	13	275	Qualified
2009	Regular	G	40.3	33.5	103	734	Qualified
2009	Post	G	68.3	59.3	—	89	Provisional

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 (1998–2001) 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 1997 with at least 140 minutes and all four components observed (72 player-seasons, reference b4d96f850ebd). 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.
Position groups are coarse listings: a hybrid such as G-F counts by its first letter. Players with no listing are compared with the whole league.
An average of component percentiles, not a percentile of the composite, a probability, points added or total player value.
Equal component weights are a fixed policy, not learned basketball values.
Adjusted rates are pulled toward the league-wide average, not the position average, so low-minute guards' blocks and offensive rebounds (and centres' assists) read slightly high within their group.
Turnovers and fouls are shown separately and are not subtracted; the index is a positive-activity profile, not net value.
Does not measure motivation, toughness or complete defensive effectiveness.
Component intervals are conditional empirical-Bayes estimates with fitted hyperparameters; they ignore hyperparameter uncertainty.
Conditional empirical-Bayes interval given fitted hyperparameters; hyperparameter uncertainty is not included.
10th-90th percentile of the index over 300 whole-game resamples with the reference fixed. A stability range, not a credible interval or ranking probability.
Percentiles of players with few minutes sit closer to 50 because their adjusted rates are pulled harder; early-season numbers understate standouts.

Edition: wnba_dawg_recorded_actions_v1 v1.2.0
Box source: wnba_stats.player_game_logs · partition updated 2026-09-28
Play-by-play: wnba_stats.play_by_play · 112 of 112 games · diagnostics only
Shrinkage gate: Passed: on the registered 2026 holdout, adjusted rates predicted later counts better than observed rates in all four components.
Status: Method 1.2.0. A descriptive profile of recorded actions; see the limitations above.

Chart data by season
Season	Value
1997	9.58
1998	12.53
1999	13.34
2000	12.16
2001	11.03
2002	11.58
2003	13.44
2004	9.44
2005	10.38
2006	9.91
2007	8.1
2008	6.66
2009	6.38

2005	57.1%

2006	47.3%

2007	52.6%

2008	49.8%

2009	51.8%

View full data table

Career shooting by season data table
Season	FG%	3P%	TS%
1997	40.4%	19.0%	43.6%
1998	44.6%	37.5%	51.8%
1999	41.9%	35.2%	49.4%
2000	44.3%	37.1%	52.9%
2001	41.4%	36.6%	49.5%
2002	45.6%	42.1%	54.1%
2003	45.8%	36.5%	55.8%
2004	41.3%	28.3%	49.6%
2005	47.4%	35.7%	57.1%
2006	37.5%	33.3%	47.3%
2007	44.4%	42.9%	52.6%
2008	43.9%	28.2%	49.8%
2009	43.2%	37.5%	51.8%

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Points per game by season

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Regular season 1997

BIRD scoring impact

Contract value · 2026

Reported cap charges

Historical reported money

Accompanying diagnostics (not in the index)

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Postseason 1997

Accompanying diagnostics (not in the index)

DAWG — Recorded Actions by season

Closest statistical profiles