About 30 players moved east to west, last year to this year, and similar number the other way. Not much difference in their net performances:
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moved min. e484 PER WS/48 BPM
W to E 19278 .75 13.5 .087 -1.1
E to W 18342 .76 13.1 .092 -0.8
Numbers as of a week ago.
West to East: Lillard, Schroder, Beasley, Tyus Jones, Poole, DiVincenzo, Bruce Brown have played 1000 minutes.
East to West: VanVleet, Harden, Grayson Allen, J Collins, D Jones, G Williams, Brogdon, Beal, Osman...
A more likely source of "western improvement" might be the rookie crop. This thread claims West rookies lead East 46-17 in projected wins added.
https://www.apbr.org/metrics/viewtopic.php?t=10044
Another phenomenon is improved health by a lot of major players, and the advantage is again in the West.
https://www.apbr.org/metrics/viewtopic. ... 160#p41160
Showing current minutes and extrapolated to 82 team games; avg minutes over previous 3 and 5 years.
x/yz is '24? divided by avg of other two -- prev3 get more weight than 4-5 years ago.
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x/yz player tm min '24? pr3 pr5
2.15 Thompson GSW 1060 2414 1073 1174
2.02 Zion NOP 907 2010 994
1.93 M Porter Den 1182 2551 1325
1.89 Kawhi LAC 1103 2512 1174 1482
1.82 J Jackson Mem 1138 2592 1390 1462
1.76 A Davis LAL 1262 2797 1490 1690
1.73 Nurkic Phx 974 2159 1283 1215
1.57 Durant Phx 1110 2460 1625 1516
1.56 George LAC 1173 2672 1612 1819
1.50 Towns Min 1111 2603 1707 1771
x/yz player tm min '24? pr3 pr5
1.38 M Turner Ind 969 2207 1505 1692
1.37 LeBron LAL 1175 2604 1847 1959
1.36 Ingram NOP 1137 2520 1833 1873
1.34 Giannis Mil 1268 2810 2080 2103
1.34 Curry GSW 1135 2585 2101 1755
1.33 Lillard Mil 1205 2671 1854 2175
The top 10 and all but 3 of these are in the West!
Translated to eWins added beyond last season:
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eW+ West eW+ East
6.5 Karl-A Towns 4.4 Cade Cunningham
5.0 Anthony Davis 4.0 Giannis
4.6 Zion Williamson 3.2 Tyrese Maxey
3.5 Kevin Durant 3.2 Goga Bitadze
3.2 Brandon Ingram 2.8 Duncan Robinson
3.1 Nikola Jokić 2.7 Coby White
3.0 LeBron James 2.4 Khris Middleton
2.9 Kawhi Leonard 2.1 Day'Ron Sharpe
2.9 Collin Sexton 2.0 Andre Drummond
2.6 Jusuf Nurkić 1.8 Damian Lillard
2.5 Paul George 1.8 Obi Toppin
2.4 Desmond Bane 1.8 Payton Pritchard
2.3 Dario Šarić 1.8 Cam Thomas
2.2 Michael Porter 34.0 total East
2.1 Devin Vassell
2.1 Shai
2.0 Jaren Jackson
1.8 Stephen Curry
54.7 total West
A few are added to the previous list based on actual improvement, as well as more minutes.
These aren't 'total' totals but just those projecting to have at least 1.8 eWins more than last year; as of a couple weeks ago.