I noticed other comments not understanding that you can use a T-test so I did. Anyway OP nice find.
Besides the fact it’s obvious Devin Booker is having a hot start to his season if you do run a T-test to see if his Points per Game where we assume his current PPG = average PPG over his seasons. Over his entire career and over the past 5 years (I think this is a better representation) both cases give you T-values inside a Rejection Region of the respective degrees of freedom with α=.05. Same goes for ASTs, and Total Rebounds. Unfortunately basketball reference doesn’t have TS% so I didn’t do that one. If you run a linear regression analysis where you take factors of, 3PA, 2PA, FTA when compared to PPG (why did I only choose these 3. I’m lazy) he his above what the predicted model should typically give him. (Yes I did also run F tests to make sure all 3 factors were significant).
I noticed other comments not understanding that you can use a T-test so I did. Anyway OP nice find.
Besides the fact it’s obvious Devin Booker is having a hot start to his season if you do run a T-test to see if his Points per Game where we assume his current PPG = average PPG over his seasons. Over his entire career and over the past 5 years (I think this is a better representation) both cases give you T-values inside a Rejection Region of the respective degrees of freedom with α=.05. Same goes for ASTs, and Total Rebounds. Unfortunately basketball reference doesn’t have TS% so I didn’t do that one. If you run a linear regression analysis where you take factors of, 3PA, 2PA, FTA when compared to PPG (why did I only choose these 3. I’m lazy) he his above what the predicted model should typically give him. (Yes I did also run F tests to make sure all 3 factors were significant).
TLDR: Devin Booker playing good basketball.