Typically when someone on TV talks about a team being young or old, they just take the average age of everyone the
roster. Which of course is a worthless number. If your youngs never play, your team is older than your average. If
the old guys never play, its younger than its average.
To find out where all the teams stood, i went through and took the age of each player on dec 31st and multiplied
by the number of minutes they have played and calculated the weighted average age for each team.
These charts are going to look confusing unless you are into numbers, but the numbers are interesting. The teams
are ordered from youngest weighted average age to oldest. All teams show the most used lineup in minutes, except for
the MAVs. I just picked a lineup but excluded numbers. Hey, this is competitive info …..
ATL “team 23.49 weighted age
ATL 1.00 131.08 minutes 57
appearances
Harrington Johnson
Lue Pachulia J.
Smith 24.20 years
CHI “team 24.48 weighted age
CHI -7.02 109.54 minutes 38 appearances
Chandler Duhon
Hinrich Nocioni
Sweetney 24.17 years
POR “team 24.96 weighted age
POR -13.40 172.98 minutes 58 appearances
Miles Monia
Przybilla Randolph Telfair
23.64 years
(I used this lineup since it played so much more than the next most used)
CHA “team 25.33 weighted age
CHA 3.93 157.97 minutes 60 appearances
Brezec Knight
Okafor Rush
Wallace 25.65 years
LAL “team 25.72 weighted age
LAL 10.63 216.09 minutes 74 appearances
Bryant Cook
Mihm Odom
Parker 25.93 years
MIL “team 25.91 weighted age
MIL -4.09 213.05 minutes 76 appearances
Bogut Ford
Magloire Redd
Simmons 24.68 years
BOS “team 25.98 weighted age
BOS 1.63 279.20 minutes 112 appearances
Blount Davis
LaFrentz Pierce
West 27.32 years
NOH “team 26.20 weighted age
NOH 0.25 263.95 minutes 80 appearances
Brown Mason
Paul Smith
West 26.15 years
UTA “team 26.25 weighted age
UTA 0.84 81.75 minutes 29 appearances
Giricek Kirilenko
McLeod Okur
Ostertag 27.79 years
TOR “team 26.30 weighted age
TOR -16.07 91.45 minutes 26 appearances
Araujo Bosh
Calderon James
Peterson 26.06 years
TOR 16.22 90.61 minutes 46 appearances
Bosh Calderon
James Peterson
Villanueva 25.25 years
(I showed both since the minutes were almost exactly the same)
NYK “team 26.42 weighted age
NYK -19.93 35.75 minutes 17 appearances
Ariza Davis
Frye Marbury
Richardson 26.97 years
(*Knicks most used by minutes lineup had Matt Barnes, so I excluded it)
GSW “team 26.60 weighted age
GSW 0.01 389.30 minutes 111 appearances
Davis Dunleavy
Foyle Murphy
Richardson 26.69 years
ORL “team 26.68 weighted age
ORL -8.81 100.41 minutes 33 appearances
Battie Francis
Hill Howard
Stevenson 27.36 years
(i used the lineup with Grant Hill since he is back)
SEA “team 26.73 weighted age
SEA 6.79 175.39 minutes 67 appearances
Allen Collison
Evans Lewis
Ridnour 26.51 years
WAS “team 26.99 weighted age
WAS 3.03 162.62 minutes 49 appearances
Arenas Hayes
Haywood Jamison
Jeffries 25.62 years
PHI “team 27.24 weighted age
PHI 5.57 286.85 minutes 109 appearances
Dalembert Iguodala Iverson
Korver Webber 26.95 years
DAL “team 27.54 weighted age
DAL 15.17 xxxx minutes xx appearances
Daniels Diop
Harris Howard
Nowitzki 24.99 years
LAC “team 27.74 weighted age
LAC 3.10 248.86 minutes 96 appearances
Brand Cassell
Kaman Mobley
Ross 28.32 years
CLE “team 27.78 weighted age
CLE 2.11 341.82 minutes 116 appearances
Gooden Hughes
Ilgauskas James
Snow 27.09 years
IND “team 27.79 weighted age
IND 9.77 169.28 minutes 70 appearances
Artest Croshere
Jackson O’Neal
Tinsley 27.92 years
MIN “team 28.02 weighted age
MIN 9.01 408.75 minutes 111 appearances
Garnett Hassell
Jaric Olowokandi Szczerbiak 28.65
years
DEN “team 28.04 weighted age
DEN 4.65 94.58 minutes 39 appearances
Anthony Camby
Lenard Martin
Miller 28.76 years
SAC “team 28.15 weighted age
SAC 9.98 508.58 minutes 177 appearances
Abdur-Rahim Bibby
Miller Stojakovic
Wells 28.85 years
MEM “team 28.61 weighted age
MEM 4.15 309.19 minutes 89 appearances
Battier Gasol E.
Jones Stoudamire Wright
29.90 years
DET “team 28.62 weighted age
DET 18.63 616.12 minutes 202 appearances
Billups Hamilton
Prince B. Wallace R. Wallace 29.12
years
PHO “team 28.79 weighted age
PHO 12.61 254.01 minutes 85 appearances
Bell Diaw
Marion Nash
Thomas 29.16 years
NJN “team 29.20 weighted age
NJN 12.43 315.84 minutes 98 appearances
Carter Collins
Jefferson Kidd
Krstic 27.35 years
MIA “team 29.39 weighted age
MIA 21.16 172.28 minutes 61 appearances
Haslem Mourning
Posey Wade
Williams 28.90 years
HOU “team 29.85 weighted age
HOU -2.97 97.47 minutes 21 appearances
Bowen Howard
McGrady Wesley
Yao 30.01 years
SAS “team 30.50 weighted age
SAS 0.37 192.76 minutes 69 appearances
Bowen Duncan
Finley Nesterovic
Parker 30.05 years
SAS 21.98 191.76 minutes 53 appearances
Bowen Duncan
Ginobili Nesterovic Parker
29.17 years
(I included both since the minutes were almost dead even)
And while Im at it, here is some more fun info
1 Atlanta 160 lineups used
2 Boston 205 lineups used
3 Charlotte 304 lineups used
4 Chicago 218 lineups used
5 Cleveland 120 lineups used
6 Dallas 187 lineups used
7 Denver 214 lineups used
8 Detroit 86 lineups used
9 Golden State 176 lineups used
10 Houston 179 lineups used
11 Indiana 182 lineups used
12 LA Clippers 208 lineups used
13 LA Lakers 193 lineups used
14 Memphis 189 lineups used
15 Miami 162 lineups used
16 Milwaukee 164 lineups used
17 Minnesota 164 lineups used
18 New Jersey 176 lineups used
19 New Orleans 132 lineups used
20 New York 281 lineups used
21 Orlando 203 lineups used
22 Philadelphia 170 lineups used
23 Phoenix 133 lineups used
24 Portland 253 lineups used
25 Sacramento 122 lineups used
26 San Antonio 203 lineups used
27 Seattle 181 lineups used
28 Toronto 119 lineups used
29 Utah 230 lineups used
30 Washington 153 lineups used