Larry Brown probably likes some Advanced Stats; he just hasn’t met them yet
Dave wonders if Larry Brown doesn’t like using “advanced stats” in the NBA because he’s been exposed to the wrong ones.
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Wins Produced
Game 1 Wins Produced Poster
Arturo gives you a quick Wins Produced Poster for game 1 of the Playoffs
Dave Berri on paying NCAA athletes (via Freakonomics)
Dave Berri writes about paying NCAA athletes, NCAA coach salaries, and NCAA competitive balance over at Freakonomics.
Prediction is hard, starring the Gay trade
Devin explains why prediction is hard, using the Rudy Gay trade as an example.
The best of the aged
Devin takes a look at the NBA players who produced the most wins after their 35th birthday.
Challenging the Rising Stars Challenge
Devin takes a look at which players should have been selected for the Rising Stars Challenge.
A Guide to Better Sports Analysis
Dave offers his suggestions on ways to improve the basketball analysis of reporters and TV personalities
Winning Consistently in the NBA
Dre looks at how teams do on average and how much they vary.
Breaking down Wins Produced
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 …
How to judge predictions
Here is something we occasionally hear from time to time: “If your model is so good then predict the next season to prove it!” In the past, members of the WoW network have tried to do just this. But as I will note in the moment, this exercise is mostly …