drza - a couple of things missing from your analysis. How much of last year's stats are pre-KG injury? Also, you did not touch the second unit. Who were the opponents in these situations? I would imagine that the majority of last year includes the post-season which are better teams than most of the other competition. Knowing Doc's rotations, would you prefer to continue to throw BBD and Sheed out there together, or make a change?
Also, does KG coming off the bench meant that he will never play with Rondo, Perk, Pierce and Ray? I would imagine that would be your 5 at the end of every game.
I went for as straight forward of a comp as possible, which is why I kept Rondo/Ray/Pierce/Perk as the constants. This also increases the likelihood that we are looking at starters against primarily starters, because the number of minutes where Rondo/Ray/Pierce and Perk are playing together and not against opposing starters is negligible.
To answer your specific questions, 82games doesn't separate into pre- or post- KG injury. But again, it is much more likely that the majority of Baby's minutes with the other 4 starters came when KG was out.
Second, the numbers that I posted were from the regular season only.
Third, I would prefer to continue to start KG and Perk since that is the unit that maximizes our defense and still maintains a good offense. In the playoffs I expect there will be fewer minutes when both starting bigs are on the bench anyway, but I actually prefer Sheed/Williams as the combo. But if Baby is going to get minutes, then yeah, I prefer that as the second combo.
Finally, no, it doesn't mean that he never plays with the other starters. But it lowers the amount of time that he plays with them, and for no corresponding benefit. Weakening the starting unit to such a huge degree can't really be made up by strengthening the second unit for much shorter periods of time.
