Ads on NBA Jerseys: a Perspective
Dre looks at the size of NBA ads on jerseys.
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July 2012
Wages of Wins Podcast: Knicks vs. Nets with a touch of Linsanity
Podcast double – Dave talks Linsanity, Dre and Vivek talk Knicks vs. Nets.
Are the Nets better than the Knicks?
Two teams that have been at the forefront of the sports world lately are the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Knicks. Both teams are vying for the hearts of New York City fans and are trying to contend for a title at the same time. Joe Johnson of …
LeBron James is Underpaid and Why Utah is a Premier Free Agent Destination (at least for college professors)
Dave looks at what drives free agent motivation in the NBA and why Utah may actually have an edge.
Talking About Jeremy Lin With NPR
If you listened to All Things Considered on NPR today, you heard a brief comment from me on Jeremy Lin (every basketball fan’s favorite topic). My interview with Joel Rose actually took much longer than the two quotes you heard. What we talked about, though, doesn’t take that long to …
Explaining Jeremy Lin’s “ridiculous” contract
Dre looks at how Jeremy Lin’s re-signing in New York would impact the Knicks.
Bartenders, height and the eye test
Dre recounts a fun story from Mindless Eating and explains how NBA scouts are like bartenders.
The 100 Most Valuable NBA players over the last three Seasons
Just wanted to give you something quick before the weekend rolled around. The Pareto principle states that 20% of the factors account for 80% of the variation. Given that there are close to 500 players on NBA players, I thought a graphical representation of the top 20% of them when …
All NBA 1978-2012 part 2: Minute men, the second and third teams
One of my goals for this offseason is to rebuild all the nifty tools, models and visualizations that we’ve done with the old Wins Produced Model with our new rebuilt the Wins Produced Model. To that end, yesterday, I put up the All NBA graph. The Graph is based on …
The best All-NBA teams of all time!
Arturo runs down the top All-NBA team from 1978 onwards.