[Jack of Arcades]

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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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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.