Percentage breakdown of categories of doubles in NBA

Question

A double consists of a player accumulating double digit number in one of the following categories per game: points, assists, rebounds, steals, and blocked shots. Achieving 2, 3, 4, or 5 doubles in a game is called double double, triple double, quadruple double, and quintuple double, respectively.

What is the percentage breakdown of each category for each of the 5 double types in the NBA? In other words, the percentage of a category for a given double type is the ratio of number of double that include that category to the number of all doubles.

Here is a hypothetical example only for double double type of what I'm looking for:

• 74% points
• 63% assists
• 45% rebounds
• 17% blocks
• 9% steals.

Percentage of each of the above categories is how often that category was part of double doubles. Of course a complete answer would have the same kind of percentage breakdown for all double types.

Answer 1

Since the 1983-1984 NBA Season (presumably the earliest data Basketball Reference has for double- and triple-doubles) to the creation of this post, there have been:

• [number of type of double, double-doubles and beyond] (percentage among doubles, double-doubles and beyond)

• 71088 double-doubles (98.07%)

  • 70970 points (99.8% of all double-doubles)
  • 15861 assists (22.3%)
  • 56631 rebounds (79.7%)
  • 16 steals (0.02%)
  • 99 blocks (0.14%)

• 1398 triple-doubles (1.93%)

  • 1397 points (99.9% of all triple-doubles)
  • 1334 assists (95.4%)
  • 1394 rebounds (99.7%)
  • 8 steals (0.057%)
  • 64 blocks (4.58%).
• 4 quadruple-doubles (0.06%) ₍₁₎
  • 4 points (100% of all quadruple-doubles)
  • 4 assists (100%)
  • 4 rebounds (100%)
  • 1 steal (25%)
  • 3 blocks (75%)
• 0 quintuple-doubles (0%)

I see a requirement for "single-doubles" and "single" category breakdown...I'll update this post if I collect that information.