Friday, May 11, 2007

2006 Storm Player Pairs

Before I head into the player pair numbers, I thought it worthwhile to look back at 2005. Ever wonder about what the injury impacts last season had on Anne Donovan's lineups? Coach Donovan used 140 different lineup combinations in the 2005 season, the first year she had two starting posts play all 34 games. Last year LJ, JB and Wendy all had injuries throughout the season. Coach Donovan deployed 212 different lineups in 2006. That is a 51% increase in the number of lineups from 2005 to 2006.

Of the top ten most used lineups in 2005, two of them repeated in 2006's top ten.

Bird-Lennox-Castro-Jackson-Burse:
2005 - +71 in 258 minutes
2006 - +57 in 166 minutes

Bird-Wright-Castro-Jackson-Burse
2005 - -1 in 132 minutes
2006 - -2 in 25 minutes

2006 Top 10 Player Pairs

Net Plus/Minus
Bird and Jackson: +185
Jackson and Burse: +151
Lennox and Jackson: +127
Castro and Jackson: +95
Bird and Burse: +89
Turner and Jackson: +86
Bird and Lennox: +68
Gortman and Jackson: +65
Lennox and Burse: +56
Bird and Castro: +48

Net40 (>10 minutes played)
Gortman and Castro: +20
Gortman and Jackson: +18
Palmer and Johnson: +16
Jackson and Burse: +15
Castro and Turner: +13
Wright and Palmer: +12
Lawson and Castro: +12
Gortman and Burse: +12
Castro and Robinson: +11
Turner and Jackson: +11

Minutes Played
Bird and Lennox (+68): 722 minutes
Bird and Jackson (+185): 711 minutes
Lennox and Jackson (+127): 629 minutes
Bird and Burse (+89): 581 minutes
Bird and Castro (+48): 539 minutes
Bird and Johnson (-73): 485 minutes
Lennox and Burse (+56): 475 minutes
Bird and Turner (+30): 450 minutes
Castro and Jackson (+95): 449 minutes
Lennox and Castro (+9): 437 minutes

Quite a few of these pairs could be seen again this season.

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