Malcolm Gladwell’s review of The Wages of Wins focused primarily on the story we told with respect to Allen Iverson. Specifically, we argue “The Answer” is not quite as good as people believe, a point expanded upon in this forum last July. Our view of Allen Iverson led people to …
The cover story of the October issue of PROFIT magazine examines “How Canada’s Top Achievers Attain Peak Performance.” The author of the article, Kara Kurylllowicz, “asked some of Canada’s brightest lights in business, sports, media and the arts to share the techniques and resources they use to achieve peak performance.” …
He was the second player taken in the 1999 draft. While the first and third player taken that year no longer play in the NFL, he has not only played but apparently excelled. Thus far he has already played in both the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl. Given such …
Okay, this is a bit late. We are almost finished with Week Three. But as I noted, I was not able to make entries last week. So here are the quarterback rankings for Week Two, and the overall rankings after the second week. Rex Grossman was the top quarterback for …
Okay, I’m back. Last Wednesday I was in Chicago, where I spoke at a MarketStance seminar at the University of Chicago. As I noted about ten days ago, it’s great fun to talk about The Wages of Wins to a live audience. And the people assembled by MarketStance were a …
The Orlando Magic won 36 games in 2004-05. Last season the Magic also won 36 games. So it might appear that this team is simply treading water. Actually, although the record suggests otherwise, it looks like this team is making progress. As one can see HERE, the roster last season …
Next up in the review of the 2005-06 NBA season is the New York Knicks. To date the Knicks have been the subject of at least three specific posts in this forum. Larry Brown or Isiah Thomas? Pinning Your Hopes on Eddy Curry? Isiah Thomas Discovers Role Players Given …
Fred “The Mayor” Hoiberg has joined the front office of the Minnesota Timberwolves. It is hard to say at this point if he will make a good executive, although as I noted in “The Tragedy of Kevin Garnett”, the Timberwolves need all the help they can get in the front …
In my recent New York Times Keeping Score column I noted that turnovers in football are hard to predict. Two weeks earlier Martin Schmidt observed – again in the New York Times – that quarterbacks tend to be quite inconsistent. And in this forum, and in The Wages of Wins, …
Prior to 2001, the history of the New Jersey Nets in the NBA was not very pretty. Entering the league in 1976, this former ABA champion suffered through 25 years of mostly losing campaigns. In eighteen seasons the team failed to win half their games. Their very best mark was …