To paraphrase John Von Neumann,truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. Case in point, it is a simple truth that everything in the Wins Produced Model comes from the Boxscore. All the math is based on actual measurable events that occur and are measure on a basketball …
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote This offseason has progressed for me like a personal checklist: Rank all the draft prospects and rank them (Check) Prepare a list …
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 other day, I (Arturo Galletti… in case you were wondering) wrote a piece on the numbers behind the NBA Labor dispute. To summarize: Player’s salaries have stayed even with inflation. Essentially this means their pay has not been going up. Owners have been increasing their spending. Management’s operating costs (per …