AccuScore season preview: Wizards
| SEASON FORECAST | BASED ON 10,000 SIMULATED SEASONS | |||||||||
| TEAM TOTALS | W | L | PS | PA | WIN DIVISION | PLAYOFFS | ||||
| Washington Wizards | 41 | 41 | 100.5 | 100.0 | 14.5% | 62.1% | ||||
| WINS | 60+ | 55-59 | 50-54 | 45-49 | 40-44 | 35-39 | 30-34 | 25-29 | 21-24 | <=20 |
| Win Total Range | 0% | 5% | 14% | 19% | 20% | 19% | 15% | 6% | 1% | 0% |
| For most of the late '80s through the first part of this decade the Wizards were stuck in lottery purgatory. Rarely bad enough to help themselves in the draft, but never good enough to get into the playoffs. Now they are stuck in 'average team' purgatory – good enough to make the playoffs, but not good enough to be taken seriously as a contender. The team did nothing in the off-season to improve its defense and injuries to Gilbert Arenas and Brendan Haywood will continue to limit the team's ability to improve. The projected averages for Haywood and Etan Thomas are fairly high, but keep in mind Haywood's are based on the 30 games he will likely play this year. The Wizards are the epitome of average with a 41-41 projected record and an average margin of victory of 0.5 points. | ||||||||||
| PLAYER FORECAST | PTS | AST | REB | FGM | FGP | FTM | FTP | 3PM | BLK | STL |
| Antawn Jamison | 19.7 | 1.6 | 8.4 | 7.4 | 43.7% | 3.3 | 74.5% | 1.6 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
| Gilbert Arenas | 19.1 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 5.8 | 40.8% | 5.7 | 82.7% | 1.8 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
| Caron Butler | 16.8 | 3.8 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 45.6% | 3.9 | 88.0% | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.7 |
| DeShawn Stevenson | 9.9 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 41.4% | 1.8 | 75.0% | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
| Nick Young | 8.5 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 43.6% | 1.7 | 79.9% | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| Etan Thomas | 8.5 | 0.6 | 7.2 | 3.4 | 56.5% | 1.7 | 56.9% | 0.0 | 2.1 | 0.5 |
| Brendan Haywood | 8.3 | 0.7 | 6.0 | 3.1 | 54.4% | 2.0 | 66.1% | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.5 |
| Antonio Daniels | 7.6 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 45.4% | 2.4 | 81.0% | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.8 |
| Andray Blatche | 5.9 | 0.9 | 4.4 | 2.4 | 45.6% | 1.0 | 66.8% | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 |
| Juan Dixon | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 44.4% | 0.2 | 84.5% | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Darius Songaila | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 50.0% | 0.3 | 88.3% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| JaVale McGee | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 49.2% | 0.3 | 61.0% | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| WAS Benchwarmers | 3.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 7.8% | 0.2 |
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Updated Saturday, Oct 25, 2008
