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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: Los Angeles Clippers at Miami Heat
Somehow, the Miami Heat are flying under the radar. They’ve had ups and downs, but it hasn’t changed their standing as the team to beat in the East, and the favorite to repeat. But they haven’t been the best regular season team thus far. That distinction belongs to the San Antonio Spurs, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and when Chris Paul has been healthy, the Los Angeles Clippers, Miami’s opponent on Thursday. Key Players Chris … Continue reading
Weekly Stats Recap
As mentioned in the previous edition of the Weekly Stats Recap, the suggested #StatStudy for this week was orchestrated to determine the impact of elite assist men. Perry Missner (@PerryMissner), a noted doubter of the importance of great point guards, estimated that 65% of the teams with a double digit dime man would win. As it turns out (for this week at least), Perry wasn’t pessimistic enough when it comes to the correlation between … Continue reading
Interview with Herb Magee
I recently talked with a very special man in the basketball world – 2009 Hall of Fame Inductee known as the “shot doctor,” Philadelphia University Mens basketball coach Herb Magee. Magee is the winningest coach in college basketball with 941, even more than Coach K. Recently he took some time of his day to talk to me about what he thinks about some shooters in the NBA, and what him and Evan Turner did … Continue reading
Evaluating Team Shot Selection
A few weeks ago I shared a new metric I had been working on called Expected Points Per Shot (XPPS). The idea was to create a metric that would allow the objective comparison and evaluation of the quality of a player or team’s shot selection. When I first shared XPPS we just looked at the numbers for individual players. The visualization with player data is now a permanent feature here, one that I’ll keep updated … Continue reading
Game of the Week: Christmas Extravaganza
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. I’m a glutton. But on Thanksgiving, I had to watch the New England Patriots hold the heads of their alleged rivals, the New York Jets, in a toilet bowl for three hours. It was a nightmare. That’s why Christmas is a close, close second, and it easily beats out Thanksgiving when it comes to viewing pleasure. The NBA has lovingly provided us with 12 hours of … Continue reading
Game of the Week: Minnesota Timberwolves at Miami Heat
I like to write about games that are going to be broadcast on national television, but I might be deviating from that formuala with this game, which is on NBA TV. Does everyone have that? To be honest, I don’t. Instead I have a neighbor who has NBA TV (Hi, Nael). If you don’t have the channel or a neighbor, I apologize. If you are reading this blog, I’m guessing you’re a big basketball … Continue reading
More On Shot Selection
Last Thursday I put up a post unveiling a new way of evaluating shot selection. The system is called Expected Points Per Shot, and it uses the expected point value of shots from different locations to calculate an expected per shot average for each player. We know that three-pointers on average are more valuable than long two-pointers. We also know exactly how much more valuable on average; 0.280 points per shot. Using that kind … Continue reading
Evaluating Shot Selection
Thanks to the innovation of Hoopdata, and the creative work of Kirk Goldsberry and others, shot location information has become a bigger and bigger part of the general basketball discussion. Even the most casual fan can now identify long-two pointers as the least efficient shots in basketball and corner-threes as an important offensive weapon. The ideas haven’t just permeated the consciousness, the data has as well. With a simple search at Hoopdata, Basketball-Reference or several … Continue reading
Daily Dribble – November 29th, 2012
Editing Transparently: Last Night’s Numbers is no more and we’re still searching for a daily format that works here at Hickory-High. Matt Cianfrone is trying out this new (sometimes) Daily Dribble thoughts/storify set-up. Let us know what you think, what works and what doesn’t. What would you like to see added? Now, back to Matt: Spurs 100- Heat 105: Obviously I am disappointed Gregg Popovich decided to send his stars, and Danny Green, home but in … Continue reading
