0 comments by halbrown on 10/14/2014
There’s been a really interesting shift among a subset of basketball analytics writers (myself included) towards much more micro-level analytics than we’ve previously seen. For a long time, the focus of analytics was on proving which player is better than which other player. ORTG/DRTG, On/Off court +/-, PER, and RAPM were all the focuses of […]
0 comments by halbrown on 9/24/2014
One of the more consistent refrains regarding the usage of statistics in basketball, from both stats gurus and the anti-stats crowd alike, is that basketball analytics lack the proper context to be relied upon. This is fairly objectively not true, for a number of different reasons. First, the basketball statistics are always built upon variables that […]
0 comments by halbrown on 9/4/2014
An interesting development in the past month or so — since the 2014 NBA draft in which Andrew Wiggins, Aaron Gordon, and Marcus Smart were some of the hottest commodities — has been the growth of rebuilding teams who are focusing primarily on athleticism and defense from their new young talent. The Orlando Magic (who […]
0 comments by halbrown on 8/16/2014
The advent of viewing basketball probabilistically, fundamentally changed how the game is managed. Basketball, to the extent that it was considered scientifically at all, used to be a function of physics — of arcs, gravity, and momentum. The realization that basketball could be viewed in terms of probabilities — in terms of the odds that […]
0 comments by halbrown on 7/18/2014
Since Dean Oliver first published Basketball on Paper in 2004 (and probably before), basketball analysts have been pushing the belief that a team’s offense should be built around shooting three pointers and taking shots at the rim — the two most efficient shots in basketball by a wide margin. That philosophy has on a macro level been […]
