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Advanced Stat Profile: Tim Duncan
Timothy Theodore Duncan Tim, The Foundation, Big Fun Role: Big in all seasons, Two-way game without weakness, anchor This is not the book on Tim Duncan and the Spurs. That subject would require entire sections of the Library of Congress. This is just the extra-heavy pamphlet on what a Tim Duncan...
Number Crunch: Has Thaddeus Young Turned a Corner?
As a 19-year old rookie Thaddeus Young looked like a promising part of the Sixers future. He accumulated a PER of 16.5, averaged 14 points per 36 minutes and shot 54% from the field. He played solid defense at two positions and was an average rebounder for a tweener (11.9% total). However; every...
Defensive Rating: Random Evan Turner Stat
Defensive Rating - Points allowed per 100 possessions Sixers Defensive Rating: 105.15 Sixers Defensive Rating w/o Evan Turner: 110.29 Sixers Defensive Rating w/ Evan Turner: 102.16
Advanced Stats on Turner, Favors, Cousins and Johnson
Previous updates: November 5 Again, this a check-up on rookies the Sixers realistically could have taken instead of Evan Turner, and a comparison to Turner using advanced statistics. We'll do this every 5 to 10 games. I also want to remind you this is a SMALL SAMPLE SIZE! Viewer discretion is...
Sixers: 10 Stats You Should Know
Derek and I were throwing stats around on Twitter the other night, but since not everyone has Twitter I'd thought I'd share these statistical McNuggets with the entire Liberty Ballers community. SMALL SAMPLE SIZE ALERT! Andre Iguodala is shooting 25% from beyond 10 feet, on 6.7 attempts per...
Another Player Comparison: Lou Williams vs. Aaron Brooks
Last weekend I unleashed the wildly popular Monta Ellis-Louis Williams comparison. Today, I will attempt to debunk another myth -- that Aaron Brooks is head-and-shoulders above Lou Williams as a basketball player -- with a second player comparison. The consensus among NBA fans, analysts, and even...
Advanced Stats in Basketball
Four months ago I put together an advanced stats primer and have been using stats like DREB%, dMULT and WS in my posts ever since. However; I still get the feeling most readers either don't understand advanced statistics, enjoy advanced statistics, or both. Advanced stats have their flaws and are...
More Information, Please: A way to improve NBA box-score stats
NBA stats have some definite, huge holes, particularly on the defensive end. It has always been that way. But does it have to be? I say no.After the jump is an analysis of where the stats are lacking, a proposal of ways to give fans more and better information in looking at individual player...
Advanced Stats?
(bwoods note: Of course True Hoop ran this really interesting piece on the Cuban Mavs' stat guru right after I posted) As you probably saw, Prada turned up a provocative quote from the Ernie Grunfeld presser this week, on the subject of the team's use of "advanced stats." Then came Flip on...
Advanced Stats For Babblers
A Daily Babble Production In yesterday's philosophical musing about statistical analysis in basketball, I pledged to provide a guide to the measures used in this space that leave the realm of the traditional box score. This is that document. Since I used about a week's worth of your allotted...
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