ESPN's NBA page has inexplicably taken a trip back to the past, to the first round of the 2001 playoffs. Their top story is how the Blazers won't be able to...
Rod Fort is a sports economist up at Washington State and is reputed to be one of the best around. For those looking to do some economics of sports, he...
You often hear about a player's consistency, but it always seemed like such a subjective notion to me. Here is my attempt to quantify consistency. Consistency...
Time to get a straw poll of who will win the NBA title this year. This isn't about pride in getting it right (or money) so much as understanding the general...
Guys: If you are a member of APBR (not _analysis), you may vote for alltime great players, at this site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/APBR/polls It has been...
I really hate how every little thing the NBA does has to have a corporate sponsor. I should have called this the Jelly Belly APBR_Analysis site. But now the...
anyone catch bruce bowen's line in last night's spurs/mavs game? 37 min - 1/3 fgm/fga, 1 reb, 2 pf i'm guessing he guarded michael finley all night (43 min,...
Whaddo we got? Giricek and Gooden to Orlando for Mike Miller and a loaf of bread. Shammond Williams to Denver for Blount and Bryant (ok, who cares...) And the...
... Guess that would depend on who you define as "good teams". Actually, according to Sagarin the Mavs have the league's *best* record against the top 10 teams...
see?.....proof positive NBA players read our posts (and respond to criticism)......brent barry went out tonight and got a career high 16 assists to go with 16...
Anyone else having problems using it? When I access the database, I start getting a popup error "Connection Refused." I can still work with the database, but...
I thought it may be amusing to come up with a basketball version of Hacking Mass (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/hm/), which attempts to find the worst...
The tough question I've been struggling with this year is the Clippers. I don't know anyone who predicted that they would get worse this year with the...
[A veritable posting explosion from your usually lurking author...] Speaking of goofy ratings... Whenever I look at a boxscore, I've always subtracted misses...
Here are the stiff rankings for the 2001-02 season. I'm posting them here in case there are any disagreements -- I want to use Stiff Points to find replacement...
What are some great sites for finding statistics from NBA games? I know about nba.com and sportsline but what are some lesser known ones that are worth looking...
Y'know, I was wondering why this cross-generational thing has been bugging me. I really don't have much interest in simulating old teams vs. new teams, but...
First of all, here are average heights (weighted by minutes played) of teams through time: SeasonYear AvgOfMinWtdHt DiffPvsYr 1952 76.2 1953 76.4 0.1 1954 76.6...
Over at apbr_analysis, we've discussed the cross generational comparison of players and teams and I think we reached the conclusion that such comparisons are...
OK, it seems the main combatants aren't even addressing the group as a whole, so I will start a new thread. I'm not at all convinced that a high poss/48min...
Some months ago, I presented a study based on how NBA players' minutes tended to increase or decline in successive seasons. It turned out, the league-wide...
Some other thoughts: I think the type of FGa (layup, dunk, etc.) needn't be recorded, at least until the scorekeeping at nba.com is more accurate. However,...
I have complete the first part of the Play by Play database. After scanning all of the games this season (up till last night), these are the distinct actions ...
some friends and I are starting a web site to write about hoops. it is not for any profit we just thought it would be fun if we could establish something like...
ok stats afficionados....does a league wide increase in FG% mean a corresponding increase in league wide offensive rebounding or a decrease, and most...
Bonjour, I'm a new suscriber at APBR_ANALYSIS (and french by the way) and APBR mailing-lists. I'm trying to calculate rating of players (and teams) based on...
In a newsgroup debate, I challenged a fellow to produce evidence that playoff pressure affects shooting performance (as opposed to offensive efficiency, which...
We asked the question a few weeks ago: What will be the pace in a game between two teams, given their average paces during the season? I was thinking about...
