I guess 'tis the season to beat up on BobC. A lot of it happened while I was gone, that's for sure. I could spend a lot of time going through and showing how ...
... Year FG% STDev STD% Notes 1947 27.9 3.45 12.402 1948 28.6 3.11 10.835 1949 32.9 3.91 11.905 1950 34.0 4.01 11.827 First year of the NBA; old BAA...
Note: I looked at all players in a season with at least 300 FGs attempted. FG% is not the actual league FG%, but the average of all the FG%s of the players...
I've gotten so far behind on reading/responding, I won't attempt to pin down the specific post(s) I'm replying to. But there is another argument that...
As alluded to earlier, here is a comparative list of the current crop of NBA white Americans, and those of 1977 MINUS THE BEST WHITE AMERICAN FROM EACH TEAM. ...
I saw on the apbr site that some were arguing that nba talent has diluted over the years based on a number of factors. some of them seem to me to be a bit...
I think Bob is missing the point -- people do have questions about the value of stats today vs yesteryear. Assuming they are the same avoids the real...
... baseball which is a series of one on one conflicts. Talent differentials will only necessarily show up over large samples - then, the large influence of...
...these would be my picks. For the East: player, team ... pct sco. reb ast stl blk - total McGrady, Orl .. .549 29.7 6.1 4.4 1.4 1.2 - 42.5 Kidd, NJ .........
Hello There has been a lot of talk in Major League Baseball about territorial rights. Does anyone know if they exist in the NBA? If they do is there some...
Here's an unabridged list of player improvement/decline since last year, by team. While the quasilinear-weights derivation of my ratings may be questioned, I...
Michael mentioned the following earlier this week in the context of ... Oddly, I was thinking of this same concept earlier in the week when I was looking at...
OK, JohnH's column said that not much surprised him this year. I would tend to agree that this season hasn't been a tremendous surprise. But one big...
Having looked through JohnH's book and added his stuff to my matrix of linear weights, I was wondering what stats people thought had the most uncertain value....
Since most of us are only familiar with one team, or a few; and since some of us can't update their ratings in under 30 minutes... For brevity, the cutoff is...
I'm looking for a website that has updated extensive online team stats, particularly one that has offensive rebounds allowed. For this year. Where do y'all go...
It seems timely to help one another out with suggestions/comments/critique of our various ranking systems. I confess to having been lazy about attempting to...
I thought i'd reply to mikeG's post here. the east does seem a little better especially the nets. my question is whether how bad the nets were relative to the...
anyone know if there is a schedule anywhere for which greatest games will be on and when? i can't seem to find one on the tv nor on the nba website. be nice to...
... feel like playing some Fantasy NBA this season? if you do, I've got a private league set up at yahoo.com. if you would like to join my league, please go...
This was meant for the group... ... remarkably, ... I agree. he might not be this bad but I never thought he was that good and college and when everyone was...
I can already tell that I was wrong about a few things entering this season. The Nets are better than I thought they'd be. I expected a 55 win team or so....
Early returns, based on 3-4 games per team. 50 minutes to qualify. Rates are adjusted for game pace, minutes, and other factors. Formulas have been slightly...
hello, just discovered this group, downloaded the file SeasonStats.zip and i LOVE IT ! I was wondering if there were people who have made excel files of the ...
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2002-10-23-player- rankings.htm I don't know about the rest of you, but my first rule of thumb for judging a...
Here is a partial list of (retired) players who had particularly overachieving playoff careers. See the previous post for clarification. An earlier post had...
Sports Illustrated's NBA Preview came out. The picks are interesting: East playoffs teams 1. Nets 2. Hornets 3. Pacers 4. Pistons 5. Wizards 6. Bucks 7....
Another thing I've been dealing with is keeping spam out of my email. There is a SpamAssassin that actually has a large series of rules for assigning points....
Just received my copy today and, after a cursory review, thought I would share my initial impressions. The book is divided in to five chapters: one on John's...
First off - I am VERY PO'd - I was dumb enough to explain EVERYTHING I was doing step by step - and it didn't post - and I didn't save it. Waste of time. I...
