Statistical Analysis of the NBA
I'm interested in learning about the subject and would like to know what book(s) would get me up to date.
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points per game is the most important
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Any articles by John Hollinger is good.
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There's Hollinger.
82games.com Google apbr metrics. Dave Berri's Wages of Win blog is pretty good, but his method is hotly debated by statheads. There's a TrueHoop entry detailing some paper that'll be presented soon to debunk his method. |
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I mainly read 82games.com but I'm not all that into it.
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i'm not a huge fan of hollinger's metrics either, particularly the "usage" stat
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Thanks for the info guys. I'll be sure to check out those sites. While looking for Hollinger's books on Amazon I also found the book "Basketball on Paper". Its description seems to indicate that it is what I'm looking for. Any of you read it? If so what did you think?
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PER seems to be about 90% of what a perfect box score reading stat should be
without going into specifics ive never been that impressed with the basketball stat geeks on the internet. they seem to be doing much worse work than the baseball stat geeks were doing 5-6 years ago, and not just because baseball is more conducive to statistical analysis |
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Although it is college basketball.
I will be interested in Basketball Prospectus when it gets up and running. |
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[ QUOTE ]
PER seems to be about 90% of what a perfect box score reading stat should be without going into specifics ive never been that impressed with the basketball stat geeks on the internet. they seem to be doing much worse work than the baseball stat geeks were doing 5-6 years ago, and not just because baseball is more conducive to statistical analysis [/ QUOTE ] The problem is that the statistical analysis of baseball started 60 years ago, when Branch Rickey started evaluating players by OBP and SLG. It picked up steam with Bill James in the late 1970s, and has gone from there. Basketball didn't really get started until a few years back. They're in the late 1970s. |
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Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis, by Dean Oliver
A few years old now, but still very relevant. |
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