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Jewell Loyd · WNBA 2020 — Beyond the Box

Jewell Loyd

SportsDataverse / WNBA StatsREG · 2020 · Coverage: partial · Freshness: unknown · Publication: partialSource as of: Oct 6, 2020 · Data through: Oct 6, 2020

Jewell LoydLas Vegas Aces · Drafted 2015 #1 · 12 published seasons

Compared with 124 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=124

15.5

True shooting %n=124

58.3%

Shooting

Effective FG %n=124

52.0%

3-point %n=113

39.0%

3PA raten=124

0.40

FT raten=124

0.35

Playmaking

Assists per gamen=124

3.2

Rebounding

Rebounds per gamen=124

2.4

Defense

Steals per gamen=124

1.5

Blocks per gamen=124

0.3

Latest team: Las Vegas Aces

2020 per game

PTS: 15.5
REB: 2.4
AST: 3.2
STL: 1.5
BLK: 0.3

22 GP · 27.8 MIN

The read

Strongest in scoring and playmaking. Rebounding is the weak spot.

Fingerprint · percentile, line is the median

Scoring83rd percentile
Shooting67th percentile
Playmaking80th percentile
Rebounding37th percentile
Defense69th percentile

ShootingOpen tab →

Where the shots come from

Shot zones · 2020

No regular-season shot locations for 2020.

Shooting splits

Shooting splits for the selected season. An em dash means the value is unavailable.
Split	Made–att.	Value	Pctl
Field goals	112–253	44.3%	—
Threes	39–100	39.0%	74
Free throws	77–88	87.5%	—
True shooting	—	58.3%	76
Effective FG	—	52.0%	65
3PA rate	—	0.40	58
FT rate	—	0.35	72

Chart data by season
Season	Value
2015	51.3%
2016	54.3%
2017	54.7%
2018	55.0%
2019	50.4%
2020	58.3%
2021	54.4%

True shooting by season

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Regular season 2020

66.5Qualified · #14 of 122 (#6 of 62 guards)

Average of four component percentiles, 0–100, against her position in the same era; against every position it is 59.2. Compared with guards: her team's roster listing this season. Game-resample stability range 55.6–72.2 (not a credible interval).

Qualified: 611 minutes meets the 110-minute display threshold.

Four index components for regular season 2020: 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	32	2.10	1.86	1.50–2.23	84.7	85.7
Blocks	6	0.39	0.43	0.25–0.65	66.9	44.7
Offensive rebounds	14	0.92	0.98	0.68–1.30	62.1	34.8
Assists	70	4.58	4.51	3.85–5.20	52.4	71.7

How much each estimate leans on the league

Steals: 66% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 34% from the league population.
Blocks: 89% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 11% from the league population.

BIRD scoring impact

Edition: WNBA 2026 season incl. playoffs
State: Season summary
Evidence through: 2026-09-29
Units: pts / 100 possessions vs. the WNBA reference

Evidence-supported. Admitted possessions cut the prior variance of total BIRD by 70% (threshold 50%).

BIRD-OFF

Offensive scoring impact

+2.72

BIRD-OFF posterior intervals
50%	[+1.68, +3.77]
80%	[+0.74, +4.70]
95%	[−0.31, +5.75]

BIRD-DEF

Positive values mean fewer opponent points

+1.33

BIRD-DEF posterior intervals
50%	[+0.51, +2.14]
80%	[−0.22, +2.88]
95%	[−1.04, +3.69]

BIRD

OFF + DEF from the joint posterior

+4.05

BIRD posterior intervals
50%	[+2.64, +5.46]
80%	[+1.37, +6.73]
95%	[−0.04, +8.15]

Joint interval viewOFF, DEF, and Total

95% interval
80% band
50% interval
mean

Contract value · 2026

Paid · 2026 reported cap charge: $800K
Value · from 2026 production: $873K

Producing like a $873K/yr player on a $800K deal: within the range of deals this production typically gets.

Paid vs. value, by season

Paid
Value
Value above pay
Pay above value

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

Reported cap charge by season

Chart data by season
Season	Value
2026	$800,000
2027	$840,000
2028	$880,000

2026 → 2028, left to right. Seasons with only a status appear as markers below.

2029 UFA

Ledger

Draft

Year: 2015
Round: 1
Pick: 1
Team: Seattle Storm

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%
2026	Las Vegas Aces	42	25.9	8.0	2.3	1.4	1.0	0.1	—	36.5%	33.6%	79.6%	51.6%	15.1%	7.2%

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	38	2.49
Turnovers	42	2.75
Personal fouls	34	2.23

Turnovers with a credited steal: 25
Turnovers without a credited steal: 17
Offensive fouls committed: 3
Charges drawn: Unsupported: the feed does not name the player who drew the foul
Late, close steals / blocks: 1 / 0
Overtime steals / blocks: 0 / 0

Play-by-play steals, blocks, rebounds, assists and turnovers match the box score across 22 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 2020

80.0Qualified · #1 of 15 (#1 of 7 guards)

Average of four component percentiles, 0–100, against her position in the same era; against every position it is 66.3. Compared with guards: her team's roster listing this season. Game-resample stability range 60.0–85.0 (not a credible interval).

Qualified: 180 minutes meets the 150-minute display threshold.

Four index components for postseason 2020: 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	8	1.78	1.44	1.07–1.84	94.0	80.6
Blocks	3	0.67	0.70	0.31–1.16	94.0	58.2
Offensive rebounds	8	1.78	1.75	1.09–2.49	86.0	56.1
Assists	23	5.11	4.80	3.66–6.02	46.0	70.4

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: 75% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 25% from the league population.
Offensive rebounds: 79% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 21% from the league population.
Assists: 80% of the adjusted rate comes from this player's own record and 20% from the league population.

Minutes: 180
Appearances: 6
Team: SEA 180 min, 6 gp
Data through: 2020-10-06
Compared with: PST 2018–2020, 49 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	23	5.11
Turnovers	14	3.11
Personal fouls	12	2.67

Turnovers with a credited steal: 13
Turnovers without a credited steal: 1
Offensive fouls committed: 1
Charges drawn: Unsupported: the feed does not name the player who drew the foul
Late, close steals / blocks: 0 / 2
Overtime steals / blocks: 0 / 0

Play-by-play steals, blocks, rebounds, assists and turnovers match the box score across 6 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
2015	Regular	G	44.5	37.7	82	879	Qualified
2016	Regular	G	60.3	52.2	36	1074	Qualified
2016	Post	G	49.0	39.6	—	33	Provisional
2017	Regular	G	68.0	59.5	15	1059	Qualified
2017	Post	G	64.1	51.1	—	31	Provisional
2018	Regular	G	64.9	57.3	22	1010	Qualified
2018	Post	G	46.9	42.0	11	250	Qualified
2019	Regular	G	44.5	42.6	82	687	Qualified
2019	Post	G	76.9	63.2	—	55	Provisional
2020	Regular	G	66.5	59.2	14	611	Qualified
2020	Post	G	80.0	66.3	1	180	Qualified
2021	Regular	G	59.4	55.3	46	964	Qualified
2021	Post	G	61.4	53.5	—	36	Provisional
2022	Regular	G	43.1	40.8	80	1090	Qualified
2022	Post	G	21.3	15.9	24	222	Qualified
2023	Regular	G	52.5	44.1	55	1345	Qualified
2024	Regular	G	46.7	44.6	78	1246	Qualified
2024	Post	G	43.6	36.7	—	59	Provisional
2025	Regular	G	55.6	46.6	54	1244	Qualified
2025	Post	G	56.1	49.4	9	351	Qualified
2026	Regular	G	30.2	27.2	135	1089.2	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 (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) 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 2020 with at least 110 minutes and all four components observed (122 player-seasons, reference 4024a98f98bd). 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 · 132 of 132 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 shot zone
Shot zone	Value
Paint	32.6%
Rim	71.1%
Left wing 3	44.4%
Middle	50.0%
Right wing 3	32.0%
Left corner 3	60.0%

Chart data by season
Season	Value
2026	$800,000
2027	$840,000
2028	$880,000

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Points per game by season

Chart data by season
Season	Value
2015	10.71
2016	16.5
2017	17.71
2018	15.53
2019	12.3
2020	15.45
2021	17.9
2022	16.28
2023	24.71
2024	19.7
2025	11.16
2026	8.05

Seasons: 12
Peak: 24.7 · 2023

2023	52.4%

2024	49.7%

2025	53.6%

2026	51.6%

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Career shooting by season data table
Season	FG%	3P%	TS%
2015	41.1%	20.8%	51.3%
2016	43.1%	30.3%	54.3%
2017	43.1%	38.6%	54.7%
2018	42.3%	37.0%	55.0%
2019	39.1%	33.7%	50.4%
2020	44.3%	39.0%	58.3%
2021	42.0%	37.6%	54.4%
2022	39.6%	38.5%	52.6%
2023	37.0%	35.6%	52.4%
2024	36.0%	27.4%	49.7%
2025	38.9%	38.2%	53.6%
2026	36.5%	33.6%	51.6%

BIRD posterior summary for Jewell Loyd
Component	Summary
OFF	mean +2.72; 50% interval [+1.68, +3.77]; 80% interval [+0.74, +4.70]; 95% interval [−0.31, +5.75]
DEF	mean +1.33; 50% interval [+0.51, +2.14]; 80% interval [−0.22, +2.88]; 95% interval [−1.04, +3.69]
Total	mean +4.05; 50% interval [+2.64, +5.46]; 80% interval [+1.37, +6.73]; 95% interval [−0.04, +8.15]

2026	Las Vegas Aces	$800,000	—	Protected Veteran
2027	Las Vegas Aces	$840,000	—	—
2028	Las Vegas Aces	$880,000	—	—
2029	Las Vegas Aces	—	UFA	—

Historical reported money

Historical reported salary and cap charge observations by season, team, and source.
Season	Amount type	Team	Amount	Status	Source
2026	Reported cap charge	LV	$800,000	Status not reportedReported amount; not independently verified	Her Hoop Stats
2025	Reported cap charge	LV	$249,032	Status not reportedReported amount; not independently verified	Her Hoop Stats
2024	Reported cap charge	SEA	$241,984	Status not reportedReported amount; not independently verified	Her Hoop Stats
2023	Reported salary	SEA	$234,936	Status not reportedAmount not independently verified	Mendeley dataset
2023	Reported cap charge	SEA	$234,936	Status not reportedReported amount; not independently verified	Her Hoop Stats
2022	Reported salary	SEA	$228,094	Status not reportedAmount not independently verified	Mendeley dataset
2022	Reported cap charge	SEA	$228,094	Status not reportedReported amount; not independently verified	Her Hoop Stats
2021	Reported salary	SEA	$121,500	Status not reportedAmount not independently verified	Mendeley dataset
2021	Reported cap charge	SEA	$121,500	Status not reportedReported amount; not independently verified	Her Hoop Stats
2020	Reported salary	SEA	$119,500	Status not reportedAmount not independently verified	Mendeley dataset
2019	Reported salary	SEA	$117,500	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.

Jewell Loyd

Where the shots come from

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Regular season 2020

BIRD scoring impact

BIRD-OFF

BIRD-DEF

BIRD

Contract value · 2026

Paid vs. value, by season

Reported cap charge by season

Ledger

Accompanying diagnostics (not in the index)

DAWG — Recorded Actions · Postseason 2020

Accompanying diagnostics (not in the index)

DAWG — Recorded Actions by season

Reported cap charge

Points per game by season

Closest statistical profiles

Historical reported money