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SportsDataverse / WNBA StatsREG · 2009 · Coverage: partial · Freshness: unknown · Publication: partialSource as of: Oct 9, 2009 · Data through: Oct 9, 2009

Shot zones · 2009

No regular-season shot locations for 2009.

Shooting splits

Shooting splits for the selected season. An em dash means the value is unavailable.
Split	Made–att.	Value	Pctl
Field goals	198–476	41.6%	—
Threes	77–212	36.3%	77
Free throws	94–96	97.9%	—
True shooting	—	54.7%	78
Effective FG	—	49.7%	73
3PA rate	—	0.45	82
FT rate	—	0.20	23

Chart data by season
Season	Value
2004	52.6%
2005	52.2%
2006	49.5%
2007	51.0%
2008	49.3%
2009	54.7%
2010	52.4%
2011	52.8%

True shooting by season

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Regular season 2009

49.0Qualified · #69 of 132 (#23 of 48 forwards)

Average of four component percentiles, 0–100, against her position in the same era; against every position it is 53.8. Compared with forwards: her roster listing from the nearest season. Game-resample stability range 40.1–55.2 (not a credible interval).

Qualified: 1033 minutes meets the 170-minute display threshold.

Four index components for regular season 2009: 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	49	1.90	1.83	1.53–2.15	78.1	79.9
Blocks	8	0.31	0.34	0.21–0.48	9.4	27.6
Offensive rebounds	51	1.98	1.98	1.64–2.33	30.2	54.9
Assists	77	2.98	2.98	2.57–3.42	78.1	52.6

How much each estimate leans on the league

Steals: 80% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 20% from the league population.
Blocks: 94% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 6% from the league population.

Draft

Year: 2004
Round: 1
Pick: 3
Team: Charlotte Sting

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%
2014	Seattle Storm	26	13.0	2.2	1.8	0.3	0.8	0.1	—	26.1%	25.0%	77.8%	38.4%	—	—

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	149	5.77
Turnovers	84	3.25
Personal fouls	62	2.40

Turnovers with a credited steal: 40
Turnovers without a credited steal: 44
Offensive fouls committed: 11
Charges drawn: Unsupported: the feed does not name the player who drew the foul
Late, close steals / blocks: 8 / 1
Overtime steals / blocks: 0 / 0

Play-by-play steals, blocks, rebounds, assists and turnovers match the box score across 34 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
2004	Regular	G	47.6	38.5	72	384	Qualified
2005	Regular	F	54.3	53.1	61	988	Qualified
2005	Post	F	20.8	18.9	16	257	Qualified
2006	Regular	G	55.8	52.8	55	886	Qualified
2006	Post	G	55.4	46.3	8	255	Qualified
2007	Regular	F	56.4	59.5	42	988	Qualified
2007	Post	F	48.0	57.4	—	81	Provisional
2008	Regular	F	32.5	39.6	129	943	Qualified
2008	Post	F	51.0	54.5	—	90	Provisional
2009	Regular	F	49.0	53.8	69	1033	Qualified
2010	Regular	F	38.9	46.6	95	898	Qualified
2010	Post	F	36.4	35.6	—	127	Provisional
2011	Regular	F	42.6	53.9	86	935	Qualified
2011	Post	F	44.0	48.1	—	104	Provisional
2012	Regular	F	41.7	51.6	86	922	Qualified
2012	Post	F	28.3	33.5	—	62	Provisional
2013	Regular	F	33.7	40.2	104	715	Qualified
2014	Regular	F	33.9	45.8	103	338	Qualified

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 (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011) 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 2009 with at least 170 minutes and all four components observed (132 player-seasons, reference 1262c0fad9d1). 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 · 220 of 221 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
2004	4.26
2005	10.71
2006	9.62
2007	12.82
2008	13.62
2009	16.68
2010	9.29
2011	9.67
2012	7
2013	6.44
2014	2.15

2012	53.9%

2013	53.7%

2014	38.4%

View full data table

Career shooting by season data table
Season	FG%	3P%	TS%
2004	41.3%	41.4%	52.6%
2005	37.9%	41.5%	52.2%
2006	37.5%	35.3%	49.5%
2007	37.6%	38.0%	51.0%
2008	36.8%	41.1%	49.3%
2009	41.6%	36.3%	54.7%
2010	38.9%	39.5%	52.4%
2011	41.0%	35.3%	52.8%
2012	41.6%	38.8%	53.9%
2013	40.6%	36.2%	53.7%
2014	26.1%	25.0%	38.4%

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Points per game by season

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Regular season 2009

BIRD scoring impact

Contract value · 2026

Reported cap charges

Historical reported money

Accompanying diagnostics (not in the index)

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Postseason 2009

DAWG — Recorded Actions by season

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