NBA Usage & Efficiency Correlation | Are We Overrating “Volume Hurts Shooting”?

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Usage vs efficiency in the NBA — does shooting more really make players less efficient? Josh Lloyd dives into the real correlation between usage% and eFG% using data from nearly 300 players over four seasons. Spoiler: the top guys break the rules.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about correlation.
0:04.0	Let's talk about usage, shooting efficiency.
0:07.0	Does it actually have an impact?
0:10.0	Michael Bolton.
0:12.0	Thanks, Josh. It's Michael Bolton here.
0:14.0	And it's time for another episode of the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast.
0:19.0	Let's get to it. Let's get to it.
0:21.9	Let's get to it. Indeed.
0:28.2	You are Locked-on Fantasy. Your daily NBA Fantasy podcast.
0:33.4	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:40.4	Hello and welcome to the Locked-on Fantasy Basket basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster.
0:44.0	My name is Josh Lloyd and Godspeed Little Doodle.
0:49.4	I'm also the lead fantasy analyst at basketballmonster.com and today's episode is brought to you by Monarch Money.
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0:58.9	listen every day. We are free and we are available on all platforms. This is a show that has
1:05.4	been pre-recorded as I'm sure you're aware that I am currently away, currently over in the United States.
1:15.6	I'm currently being watching Summer League games, or I don't know, at the time you're watching
1:19.7	this, I'm probably not, I'm probably just having a few days off. But that's okay,
1:22.8	because this is an evergreen topic. And this is something that I discussed during the year when we were talking
1:30.0	about, and we talk about this sort of off the cuff a lot everyone does in the NBA in fantasy
1:36.3	circles. We talk about this idea of how players respond to taking more shots and how that impacts their value in fantasy, how it impacts
1:47.8	their overall efficiency, etc. So we're going to try and have a look and I think that we could use
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