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February 11, 2004
82games.com: "tracks the [NBA] season in obsessive statistical detail, down to the kind of abstruse metrics that pro basketball has thus far overlooked, underused, or entirely ignored," according to an in-depth article in SF Weekly. (The guy who does the site has the similar TwoMinuteWarning.com about the NFL.)
posted by kirkaracha to basketball at 09:29 PM - 4 comments
Beautiful. Simply beautiful. If only basketball had the kind of statistical breadth and history of baseball the APBR would be on par with SABR. (not that they aren't)
posted by lilnemo at 11:27 AM on February 12, 2004
It would be nice to see this applied to soccer, too. But we need the right info, not just a deluge of info. Per this post, what is the info that matters? What factors (skills, etc.) give you the best results? What factors don't? What factors don't matter? What is the math behind the magic? I'm almost ready to learn how to build Markov models and actuarial tables. Data -> Information -> Knowledge -> Wisdom (source: Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design)
posted by worldcup2002 at 01:19 AM on February 13, 2004
As I wander in here looking to see if the APBR website has been posted on SpoFi I find that this is the only thread to mention the APBR. It's been mentioned but not given it's own thread so maybe I'll just drop it into the Link Dump 4 thread in the lockerroom. The APBR website looks to be chock full of interesting info. Not as dense as SABR analysis, as has been mentioned, but a good resource nonetheless.
posted by gspm at 12:41 PM on July 05, 2004
The Roland Ratings are interesting but flawed because players like Richard Jefferson, Kerry Collins and Kenyon Martin get pulled into the Top 10 mostly because they're on the floor with the #1 guy, Jason Kidd. Roland Beech makes reference to an "adjusted rating" that cancels out this effect, and I would be very interested in those figures. Statheads like Dean Oliver, John Hollinger and Beech are very important to developing improved methods of player evaluation in basketball. Smart GMs will pay attention to their work and incorporate their findings into their personnel decisions.