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Victor Wembanyama has Blocked Over 20% of the Shots he has Defended (alien.top)
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Victor Wembanyama has blocked 21.8% of Field Goals which he defended. This is almost 5 standard deviations above the mean.

 

Rest of the Top Ten:

Rank Player BLK/DFA
1 Victor wembanyama 21.8%
2 Clint Capela 15.1%
3 Anthony Davis 15.0%
4 Brook Lopez 14.5%
5 Daniel Gafford 14.2%
6 Myles Turner 13.4%
7 Rudy Gobert 13.2%
8 Jaren Jackson Jr. 13.2%
9 Chet Holmgren 12.5%
10 Ausar Thompson 12.4%

 

This data was arbitrarily limited to players with more than 300 minutes played(198 Players)

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[–] RealPrinceJay@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. We are surprised. We generally call three standard deviations from the mean an outlier already. 5 doesn't make any fucking sense. The odds being 5 standard deviations away is roughly 1/3.5 million

[–] Thrillog@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Have you tried looking at the multiples of the interquartile range? I know it has it's foibles, but maybe worth a go?