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Shot Selection Round-Up: Part 1
Shot selection and specifically shot locations have become a larger and larger part of the basketball conversation. It’s a topic of great personal interest to me and I’ve written quite a bit about it this season. To add an easily comparably quantitative element to the conversation, I also developed Expected Points Per Shot (XPPS). This metric is based on the expected value of shots from different locations and boils the quality of a player’s … Continue reading
Weekly Stats Recap
This week I decided to take a look at players who rebound, but also score. I charted the total points each team received from players grabbing at least five rebounds in an effort to determine if teams with high scoring rebounders won more often than not. I figured that winning teams would have a higher average point total from qualifying players, but never did I imagine the difference being this drastic. During the 50 … Continue reading
Game of the Week: Chicago Bulls at New York Knicks
As you might know, I try to limit myself to picking national television games in this space. I like everyone to be able to look out for the things I point out, no matter where they live. One thing that’s lame about that is that the same teams crop up over and over again. I just want you to know that it’s not my fault; blame whomever schedules the games. On that note, I’m … Continue reading
The Previews Of The Roundtable: Atlantic Division
NBA basketball is going to be here before you know it and the staff of Hickory-High is licking their chops. This is the second installment of our “Previews Of The Roundtable” series where we’ll take you division by division, through some of the things we’re most looking forward to. Monday we looked at the NBA’s Northwest Division. Today we’re continuing with Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn and Toronto in the NBA’s Atlantic Division. ________________________________________________________________________________ … Continue reading
Making Change
Last week, I laid out a theoretical experiment at Hardwood Paroxysm for the basketball laboratory of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James. Prompted by Wade’s somewhat bizarre assessment of his own jumpshot, I put some numeric value to what both he and James accomplish in the paint compared to what they accomplish from the outside. Both players pair incredibly efficient finishing at the basket with a lengthy history of shaky outside shooting, an assessment that was … Continue reading
Offensive Outcomes
A look at the raw Synergy data from my Offensive Geometry post. This is an analysis, with sortable data, of all different individual offensive outcomes from this season. Continue reading
DREW: Picking On Player Ratings
Kyle Soppe unveils a new system for picking the playoffs. Continue reading
Rants, References and Revelations
Rants, References and Revelations is a weekly collection of links and responses, covering the latest developments in the basketball universe. Continue reading
Last Night’s Numbers – 4/30/12
A look back at some of the most impressive numbers from the NBA Playoff’s opening weekend. Continue reading
Miami and New York: By the Numbers
A stats-based preview of the playoff series between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks. Continue reading
