Any opinions on seasonal awards? Here is my unsolicited list: mvp: duncan rook: ming most improved: Arenas 6th Man: Kirilenko Defense: Ben Wallace Coach:...
The Garnett stat is not true, and the other players' figures probably aren't either. Since Garnett averages of 40.6 minutes per game, if it were true Minnesota...
Here's what I would call the 'best players', as far as I can measure them statistically: 46.5 O'Neal,Shaquille LAL 46.4 Duncan,Tim San 46.2 Mcgrady,Tracy Orl ...
Without consideration for whether a player is early (and rising) in his career, or bouncing back from an off-year, here are my rankings for most-improved....
For those that haven't heard, there is a magazine published by the American Statistical Association that has articles on sports in fairly layman's terms. It...
found this on the web (infoplease) about Dukes.... Seton Hall center who set the current NCAA single-season record for total rebounds (734) during the 1952-53...
I finally did what we talked about a long time ago here. I looked at how well we can predict the pace of a single game based upon the two teams' average...
As before, this poll is to get a sense for how smart we are as a group. There isn't much individuality to be taken out of this. There's no money on it. I'm...
Something I'm not hearing about a lot in the national media is Seattle's resurgence. They were left for dead at the time of the Payton-Allen trade, but since...
I bring this up, not as yet another new thread in the never-ending mega-thread of the existence of hot hands, but rather as a follow-up to our discussion last...
the fact that anyone would even consider james worthy for the hall of fame is beyond me.... looking strictly at his pro stats there is nothing overly...
Does anyone know where I can find NCAA Division I, team and opponent stats(cumulative, not per game....similar to the teamratings spreadsheet in the Files...
... Point of fact...Worthy was never a National Player Of The Year winner (at least not of any of the major awards that the NCAA recognizes). In fact, he was...
Anyone have opinions on the nominees this year? I'll give mine quickly: Robert Parish: In, was very good (not great) for so long. James Worthy: I think he...
An interesting tidbit from Eric Neel's column on ESPN: "The most impressive stat I've heard all year (courtesy of Chad Ford's must-read NBA Insider column last...
i've seen plus/minus numbers for every NBA player in the league in harvey pollack's (76ers stats guru) annual media guide since the 93-94 season (actually that...
(Please forgive the "thinking out loud" nature of these posts. I am not very reflective, and rely on others to point out mistakes.) My recent interest in...
I guess one of the underlying questions of why people (7/11, according to the poll) think the Kings are likely to win the title is: Do we think the Kings will...
I'm looking for a programmer to write a program that captures my methods of analyzing player tendencies from viewing videotapes of games. It would involve...
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...
