Interviews are becoming increasingly important, and are also one of the ools to predict someones place in the draft.

Just now, DraftExpress has an article on Interview Statistics, with a whole bunch of new stats. I just read it.

So now we know that Paul George has an incredible quick release, with a n average QRT of 0.327 seconds. QRT stands for Question Response Time. Derrick Character’s QRT was the slowest of the bunch, at 2.785, which is caused by the fact that often he has to perform at least two chews and a swallow before reacting. Incredibly, DMC has a negative QRT, which can be ascribed to the fact that he did not deem to answer all the questions about his conditioning and other red flags.

To his credit, DMC scored high on some defensive stats. He had the highest DPQ, Deflections Per Question, at 0.899, since he just swathed away all questions about his character issues. Favors on the other hand, scored fairly low, leaving the door open for most questions.

DMC’s teammate, Orton, had a very high Quotability Percentage, especially because of his comments about DMC at the combine. Please note that the Quotability Percentage is also known as the Charles Barkley-stat, and does not show whether the quotes reflect well on the quoted player or not. For that we have to look at Orton’s SIOF-number (Shoot In Own Foot), which shows that his quote may have hurt DMC, but also his own draft stock.

John Wall also stands out in interviews, because he scored especially well at TA percentage (True Answering). His answers had the highest percentage of content that actually related to the questions posed. Ekpe Udoh, predictably, scored low here.

Another bad performer in many stats was Seraphin, who clearly struggled with the English language. The way he he rattled in French with his translator, we do feel he has all the skills (agile tongue, strong lips, lateral word speed) to improve in this category. His ceiling is very high in that regard, and I’d go as far and say that he has ridiculous upside when it comes to interviewing.

Finally, the highest scorer of the all-important RWQ-stat was DMC. It is the steal category of question stats, and stands for Reply With a Question stat. It has to be noted that the stats may be a bit skewed here, since DMC reacted to a lot of questions with “Can your repeat that question?”. Although it isn’t exactly cheating, DMC does know how to fill stat sheets.