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Alana Beard · WNBA 2015 — Beyond the Box

Alana Beard

SportsDataverse / WNBA StatsREG · 2015 · Coverage: partial · Freshness: unknown · Publication: partialSource as of: Oct 14, 2015 · Data through: Oct 14, 2015

Alana BeardLos Angeles Sparks · Drafted 2004 #2 · 14 published seasons

Compared with 140 players, 10+ GP

n is the qualified comparison sample for that metric. A percentile rank needs at least two comparable values; unavailable ranks are left unestimated.

White dot: Average
Blue dot: Good
Red dot: Bad

Scoring

Points per gamen=140

7.8

True shooting %n=140

52.2%

Shooting

Effective FG %n=140

50.0%

3-point %n=117

18.2%

3PA raten=140

0.11

FT raten=140

0.10

Playmaking

Assists per gamen=140

2.7

Rebounding

Rebounds per gamen=140

3.1

Defense

Steals per gamen=140

1.2

Blocks per gamen=140

0.5

Latest team: Los Angeles Sparks

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Regular season 2015

56.3Qualified · #49 of 136 (#21 of 64 guards)

Average of four component percentiles, 0–100, against her position in the same era; against every position it is 55.1. Compared with guards: her team's roster listing this season. Game-resample stability range 44.5–62.1 (not a credible interval).

Qualified: 365 minutes meets the 170-minute display threshold.

Four index components for regular season 2015: 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	17	1.86	1.68	1.28–2.11	69.5	77.6
Blocks	7	0.77	0.77	0.45–1.12	89.8	60.7
Offensive rebounds	3	0.33	0.52	0.26–0.82	13.3	6.3
Assists	38	4.16	4.05	3.27–4.88	52.3	76.1

How much each estimate leans on the league

Steals: 57% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 43% from the league population.

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	40	4.38
Turnovers	20	2.19
Personal fouls	31	3.40

Turnovers with a credited steal: 12
Turnovers without a credited steal: 8
Offensive fouls committed: 1
Charges drawn: Unsupported: the feed does not name the player who drew the foul
Late, close steals / blocks: 3 / 0
Overtime steals / blocks: 0 / 0

Play-by-play steals, blocks, rebounds, assists and turnovers match the box score across 14 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 2015

65.4Provisional

Average of four component percentiles, 0–100, against her position in the same era; against every position it is 55.2. Compared with guards: her team's roster listing this season. Game-resample stability range 38.5–73.1 (not a credible interval).

Provisional: 105 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 2015: 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	5	1.91	1.49	1.01–2.02	80.8	68.8
Blocks	2	0.76	0.75	0.29–1.30	69.2	56.3
Offensive rebounds	5	1.91	1.91	1.08–2.85	92.3	64.6
Assists	5	1.91	2.28	1.35–3.32	19.2	31.3

How much each estimate leans on the league

Steals: 28% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 72% from the league population.
Blocks: 60% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 40% from the league population.
Offensive rebounds: 68% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 32% from the league population.
Assists: 71% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 29% from the league population.

Minutes: 105
Appearances: 3
Team: LAS 105 min, 3 gp
Data through: 2015-10-14
Compared with: PST 2013–2015, 48 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	8	3.05
Turnovers	3	1.14
Personal fouls	10	3.81

Turnovers with a credited steal: 3
Turnovers without a credited steal: 0
Offensive fouls committed: 0
Charges drawn: Unsupported: the feed does not name the player who drew the foul
Late, close steals / blocks: 2 / 2
Overtime steals / blocks: 0 / 0

Play-by-play steals, blocks, rebounds, assists and turnovers match the box score across 3 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	74.5	70.8	9	1025	Qualified
2004	Post	G	66.7	65.6	—	102	Provisional
2005	Regular	G	57.5	54.1	45	1015	Qualified
2006	Regular	G	68.1	65.6	17	994	Qualified
2006	Post	G	69.6	59.3	—	64	Provisional
2007	Regular	G	59.4	58.1	31	1168	Qualified
2008	Regular	G	57.0	57.0	48	1092	Qualified
2009	Regular	G	58.1	54.9	35	986	Qualified
2009	Post	G	44.2	44.5	—	54	Provisional
2012	Regular	G	58.3	55.0	39	1019	Qualified
2012	Post	G	50.0	48.4	—	136	Provisional
2013	Regular	G	53.0	50.4	48	704	Qualified
2013	Post	G	52.2	41.7	—	93	Provisional
2014	Regular	G	59.3	54.2	34	915	Qualified
2014	Post	G	58.0	46.7	—	48	Provisional
2015	Regular	G	56.3	55.1	49	365	Qualified
2015	Post	G	65.4	55.2	—	105	Provisional
2016	Regular	G	70.1	62.8	11	997	Qualified
2016	Post	G	67.0	55.7	3	280	Qualified
2017	Regular	G	63.7	59.5	25	1047	Qualified
2017	Post	G	55.4	37.8	5	259	Qualified
2018	Regular	G	66.2	57.3	20	766	Qualified
2018	Post	G	60.4	51.0	—	53	Provisional
2019	Regular	G	53.8	50.4	49	234	Qualified
2019	Post	G	70.2	49.5	—	66	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 (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017) 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 2015 with at least 170 minutes and all four components observed (136 player-seasons, reference a8b36289b38e). 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 · 204 of 204 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.

2015 per game

PTS: 7.8
REB: 3.1
AST: 2.7
STL: 1.2
BLK: 0.5

14 GP · 26.1 MIN

The read

Strongest in playmaking and defense. Shooting is the weak spot.

Fingerprint · percentile, line is the median

Scoring64th percentile
Shooting35th percentile
Playmaking83rd percentile
Rebounding55th percentile
Defense80th percentile

HistoryOpen tab →

Points per game by season

Chart data by season
Season	Value
2004	13.12
2005	14.07
2006	19.19
2007	18.85
2008	16.12
2009	15.87
2012	11.36
2013	6.22
2014	8.52
2015	7.79
2016	7.06
2017	6.91
2018	4.03
2019	3.25

Seasons: 14
Peak: 19.2 · 2006

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Shot zones · 2015

No regular-season shot locations for 2015.

Shooting splits

Shooting splits for the selected season. An em dash means the value is unavailable.
Split	Made–att.	Value	Pctl
Field goals	49–100	49.0%	—
Threes	2–11	18.2%	21
Free throws	9–10	90.0%	—
True shooting	—	52.2%	66
Effective FG	—	50.0%	77
3PA rate	—	0.11	38
FT rate	—	0.10	2

Chart data by season
Season	Value
2004	50.0%
2005	46.5%
2006	57.4%
2007	51.4%
2008	49.4%
2009	50.4%
2012	53.5%
2013	49.8%
2014	50.6%
2015	52.2%
2016	51.9%
2017	55.1%
2018	43.5%
2019	49.1%

True shooting by season

TS% 50.0% (2004) → 49.1% (2019); low 43.5%, high 57.4%.

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Career shooting by season data table
Season	FG%	3P%	TS%
2004	41.8%	37.5%	50.0%
2005	38.0%	31.7%	46.5%
2006	49.5%	36.3%	57.4%
2007	41.6%	32.2%	51.4%
2008	39.5%	35.4%	49.4%
2009	42.9%	29.9%	50.4%
2012	43.6%	40.2%	53.5%
2013	45.9%	12.5%	49.8%
2014	46.3%	28.6%	50.6%
2015	49.0%	18.2%	52.2%
2016	46.7%	34.2%	51.9%
2017	49.7%	31.6%	55.1%
2018	39.2%	40.0%	43.5%
2019	44.9%	20.0%	49.1%

Contract value · 2026

No contract on the 2026 books to price.

Reported cap charges: Her Hoop Stats. Model: Beyond the Box wnba-contract-surplus-2.0.0.

Reported cap charges

No current contract details are published for this player.

Historical reported money

Historical reported salary and cap charge observations by season, team, and source.
Season	Amount type	Team	Amount	Status	Source
2019	Reported salary	LA	$108,000	Status not reportedAmount not independently verified	Mendeley dataset

Source-reported observations; amounts are not independently verified. No totals are calculated. Captured Oct 12, 2026; original historical availability is unknown.

Draft

Year: 2004
Round: 1
Pick: 2
Team: Washington Mystics

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%
2019	Los Angeles Sparks	16	14.6	3.3	1.5	1.4	0.8	0.2	—	44.9%	20.0%	77.8%	49.1%	—	—
2018	Los Angeles Sparks	30	25.5	4.0	3.3	1.7	1.5	0.2	—	39.2%	40.0%	81.0%	43.5%	—	—
2017	Los Angeles Sparks	34	30.8	6.9	3.3	2.2	2.1	0.5	—	49.7%	31.6%	80.4%	55.1%	—	—
2016	Los Angeles Sparks	34	29.3	7.1	3.3	2.1	1.7	0.6	—	46.7%	34.2%	69.2%	51.9%	—	—
2015	Los Angeles Sparks	14	26.1	7.8	3.1	2.7	1.2	0.5	—	49.0%	18.2%	90.0%	52.2%	—	—
2014	Los Angeles Sparks	33	27.7	8.5	2.6	2.5	1.1	0.5	—	46.3%	28.6%	74.5%	50.6%	—	—
2013	Los Angeles Sparks	32	22.0	6.2	2.3	1.4	1.3	0.3	—	45.9%	12.5%	82.4%	49.8%	—	—
2012	Los Angeles Sparks	33	30.9	11.4	2.2	3.3	2.0	0.4	—	43.6%	40.2%	79.5%	53.5%	—	—
2009	Washington Mystics	31	31.8	15.9	4.0	2.2	2.3	0.6	—	42.9%	29.9%	73.7%	50.4%	—	—
2008	Washington Mystics	33	33.1	16.1	3.6	3.5	1.7	0.6	—	39.5%	35.4%	73.3%	49.4%	—	—
2007	Washington Mystics	33	35.4	18.8	4.2	3.0	1.9	0.7	—	41.6%	32.2%	84.7%	51.4%	—	—
2006	Washington Mystics	32	31.1	19.2	4.7	3.1	1.8	0.8	—	49.5%	36.3%	75.8%	57.4%	—	—
2005	Washington Mystics	30	33.8	14.1	4.3	3.0	1.5	0.3	—	38.0%	31.7%	76.2%	46.5%	—	—
2004	Washington Mystics	34	30.1	13.1	4.2	2.7	2.0	1.0	—	41.8%	37.5%	71.8%	50.0%	—	—

Alana Beard

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Regular season 2015

Accompanying diagnostics (not in the index)

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Postseason 2015

Accompanying diagnostics (not in the index)

DAWG — Recorded Actions by season

Points per game by season

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Contract value · 2026

Reported cap charges

Historical reported money