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Basketball Statistics Referred Concepts:
About the Most Helpful Basketball Scorebook Stats before Going into the Locker Room ...!

Which are the most helpful scorebook stats, for example before going into the locker room at half time, according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System,
and why ?

Logically, the best and first indicator of the winner is to be sure that the team that has the most points is my proper team..., and only after that, I see the most helpful
scorebook stats:

- defensive touches tracked and shots inside the paint... ( how aggressive are we playing ? );

- number of fouls called on each team... ( who shoots the most free throws ? );

- rebounds... ( are our rebounds at 40+ / 50+ per game and we own the boards ? );

- turnovers, steals... ( are the immediate gratification you are looking for in a game...);

- the shot chart for both teams by quarter ( are we shooting to many jumpers and not attacking the rim ? );

- the shots by 4, 8, 16, 20 & 24 seconds report ( is this game pace our game pace? );

The Most Helpful Basketball Scorebook Stats to Discuss into the Locker Room
in a Photograph by Christopher Dabe / BE

- missed layups... ( all the other problems will get over that as soon as players start making layups !);

- deflections... ( are we getting good pressure in the passing lanes ? );

- turnover/assist ratio for players and turnovers/steals ratio for the team ( more assists and steals, OK ? );

- OER (offensive efficiency rating)= total points scored divided by total possessions;

- DER (defensive efficiency rating)= total points allowed divided by total possessions;

- these last two stats take the tempo of the game out of the equation and give you a true sense of how effective you are at scoring and stopping the other team.

In my opinion, everything else is post-game analysis as proposed in my eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System.


( Excerpt from the introduction to my exposition "Basketball Statistics Analysis" at the eBA Basketball Statistics Clinics. )

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Friday Press Clippings:
The Great Carmelo Debate: Why can't basketball stats nerds separate the superstars from the ball hogs?

From Slate.com
By David Merritt Johns
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by David Merritt Johns


"... In the run-up to the NBA trading deadline, Berri told the Wall Street Journal that if the Knicks sold the farm to bring in Carmelo, they would win "roughly 29 games over a full year." After seeing which players were actually involved in the deal, he said the team might win 50. * A lot of people thought that sounded off.

New York Times stats guru Nate Silver argued that, on the contrary, Melo is "the ultimate team player" because his offensive game draws defenders and allows his teammates to get more wide-open shots, boosting their field goal percentage. Carmelo's value, Silver and other analysts said, was spilling over his own stat line and into the box scores of his teammates. ..."

"... The statisticization of basketball is a relatively new enterprise. Its modern incarnation is usually traced to Dean Oliver, a Ph.D.-trained statistician who started scrutinizing the game on a per-possession basis in the 1990s and derived the so-called "Four Factors" that make for hoops success: shooting, turnovers, rebounds, and free throws.

After the publication of Moneyball, Michael Lewis' best-selling 2003 book on the numerical analysis of baseball, basketball stat-heads redoubled their efforts.

Their hunt for a definitive, all-in-one performance metric—something analogous to baseball's wins above replacement, perhaps—yielded an array of competing stats, including: Efficiency, a simple tally that adds up a player's successes (like points) and subtracts his failures (like turnovers); Player Efficiency Rating, a more complex figure that assigns weights to these individual measures; and Wins Produced, a stat that assesses how various performance parameters correlate with team wins and then divvies up credit to players.

These well-known measures are only the beginning: Today, the Internet is awash with stats sites seeking to describe basketball player talent in a more accurate, mathematical way. ..."

"... This suggests that statistics that give players a lot of credit for rebounding prowess, like Berri's Wins Produced, may be weighing the numbers wrong. In past years, Berri's system has declared that rebounding studs like Ben Wallace have been the most valuable players in the NBA, ranking at the very top in Wins Produced. (Berri argues that reducing the importance of rebounds in his formula doesn't change its results.)

Other box-score stats have different biases: John Hollinger's Player Efficiency Rating, for example, is often accused of overvaluing high "usage" players—ball hogs who take a ton of shots and hence score more points. But is a high usage rate a symptom of having a weak supporting cast or of a propensity to launch crappy shots?

The stats don't say. Dan Rosenbaum, an economist for the Office of Management and Budget who also works as a consultant for the Cleveland Cavaliers, says the problem with many of these supposedly advanced stats is that they are "not empirical"—rather than rank players by value, they merely reflect their creators' sense of the importance of different facets of the game. ..."

"... Or it could be that these stats just aren't any good. The biggest problem with adjusted plus-minus is that you need several years' worth of data to get a reliable signal. Once again, interaction effects are the issue: Coaches tend to use the same combinations of players over and over again, so certain guys will play together more often than others.

A player who is in a lineup with LeBron James will benefit from that association and have a higher plus-minus as a result. And teams that don't recognize these flaws in the metric can get bitten. The Dallas Mavericks—with their science-loving owner, Mark Cuban—were early adopters of adjusted plus-minus. But they made some crucial player personnel errors, especially in devising playoff lineups, because they didn't fully appreciate the noisiness of the data, according to one NBA stats analyst who requested anonymity so that he could speak candidly about another team.

Still, many NBA stats experts do use versions of adjusted plus-minus as part of their player evaluation system. Some front offices also look at Player Efficiency Rating to get a basic sense of offensive talent. Several NBA statisticians told me that they did not know of any franchise that relies on Wins Produced. ..."

"... Today about half of NBA teams work with statisticians, and they tend to outperform those that don't. But the heyday of the all-in-one advanced-box-score stat may actually be behind us; coaches now chart players' strengths and weaknesses using services that slice up piles of game film into digestible pieces.

That lets them scrutinize the quality of pick-and-rolls and investigate whether their power forwards are better attacking the basket from the left or right post. There are statistics involved, but in the end a flesh-and-blood human must sit there and fix his eyeballs on the tape. ..."

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The Black Hole ~ 2012 Academy Winner

2012 Academy Winner
Nominated for the Florida Short Films Best Motion
Nominated for the best Miami Short story (Lost due to the movie Validation)

Director: Diamond Dugs
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Country: U.K.
Category: Comedy

A sleep deprived office worker finds a Black Hole whilst photocopying late one night Suddenly the possibilities seem endless. Will greed get the better of him ?

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Life and Sports Motivational Videos:
'The Chosen One' by Jimmy Nguyen

This was shot with 16mm film. Processed and color corrected by Filmworkers Group in Dallas.

Written and Directed by Jimmy Nguyen
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You Let Some Girl Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale by Ann Meyers Drysdale, With Foreword by Julius Erving and Joni Ravenna (Contributor) Ann Meyers Drysdale tells how she blasted through basketball barriers and stereotypes to become one of Time magazine's Top 10 Female Sports Pioneers. “... The book is about hopes and dreams. I’ve been blessed to be part of so many incredible experiences and I thought it was time to tell my story. ...”

“... I hope that the book serves as a reminder to people that anything can be accomplished if you set your mind to it. Plus, releasing the book in conjunction with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Title IX is a perfect reminder of how far female athletics has come and to honor that I’ll be donating a portion of the book proceeds to Phoenix Mercury Charities. ...”
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
About the Applicability of a Statistical System for High School Basketball

In our Basketball Statistics eBA Clinics, the participants always ask about the applicability of our statistical system for high school basketball.

It is inevitable: last years high school students get scouters attention ! We read in one of our articles in the Scouting section an appeal to the high school students "to be sure to enjoy their High School Basketball experience, and sell-out for the team !

Some student/athletes over-emphasize the recruiting process and end up under-achieving because of the excessive pressure they put on themselves to impress recruiters, an over-emphasis upon statistics, or saving themselves for college. Work hard, hustle, and play your game to help your team!"

It is clear, from the name of our system and the site, that we are working for "basketball professional teams". I don't think that a complete statistical system must be applied in the High School, but about the fact that the high school coach must keep basics statistics we have no any doubt, specially on the last years.

And its use and results must be emphasized in the coaching program: that's mean, the use of the stats to help the player to improve himself in the rights areas and to assist the coach in the programming of his trainings more accurately.

Perhaps the clinics participants intended to ask if all this set of complex formulas of analysis are necessary at high school.... Please hear to this old basketball coach and statistician analyst: all the time you can.... work with your players on basketball fundamentals !

The future NBA Coach of your actual players will give, however secretly, the credit to You....!

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Basketball Statistician's Digest:
April 2012 eBA sketball Statistics Case Study Conclusion

Basketball Turnover Tracking Case Study

" ... A1 is in control of the ball when
(a) A1 travels with the ball
(b) A1 double dribbles with no defender pressure;
(c) A1 throws the ball from front court into back court;
(d) A1 dribbles from front court into back court under pressure-defense;
(e) A1 commits a player-control foul; or
(f) A3 commits a foul.

What is the proper ruling and the correct INDIVIDUAL or COLLECTIVE statistical registration according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System including the type of the registration ( type of turnover; forced, unforced, individual or collective turnover, good or bad foul; close, long, disputed or undisputed rebound; assist made, potential, missed or double assist; etc. ) ... ?"

Photograph: Marisa Wojcik

Conclusion:

eBA System Statistics Fundamentals:

The purpose of a turnover is to reflect statistically the times in which a team was given the ball and should have gotten some kind of shot but, before it could get any kind of shot, made some type of mistake that turned the ball over to the opponent.

Basketball Statistics Philosophy:

A turnover can only be charged against the offense; that is, the team with the ball. A team becomes the team with the ball when it has control (including during free throws) or is entitled to the ball for either a throw-in or a free throw.

There will be some errors that will not result in the charging of a turnover because they did not involve the turning of the ball over to the opponent.
Errors that occur at approximately the same time a team becomes entitled to the ball should not be considered turnovers.
The team should have time to realize it has the ball before being charged with turnovers.

That said, a turnover should be 'forced'. or 'unforced' according to our eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System, when also are track the turnover against the 24 second-clock, recording the court placement, the play situation ( 1x1, 1x2, etc. ) and the points-off that turnover.

eBA Basketball Statistical Tracking:

• In (a), charge A1 with a FORCED turnover.
• In (b), charge A1 with an UNFORCED turnover.
• In (b), charge A1 with an UNFORCED BACKCOURT turnover.
• In (c), charge A1 with a FORCED BACKCOURT turnover.
• In (d), charge A1 with a turnover: Forced or unforced depending upon the situation.
• In (f), charge A3 with an UNFORCED turnover.

This Case Study was presented as every 1st. day of each month, on April 1st, 2012 in our eBA Portal: were sent 513 answers, 11 partial answers and 198 totally correct, that's means including all the options, registrations and qualifications.

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May Cover ~ Basketball Beautiful Faces:
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Photograph: Basketball Notes by Alex

Our Basketball Beautiful Faces of May 2012 Cover
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eBA Encyclopedia Statistics Terminology: The Statistics Heritability Concept

Heritability is basically a statistical concept.

The chart to the center is the famous one used by Francis Galton to show the relationship between the height of parents and the height of offspring.

Heritability is the slope of the line of best fit for the data.
If there is a perfect fit, then heritability is ~ 1.
If there is no relationship then heritability is ~ 0.

Heritability tells you your expectation of the offspring trait value if you know the value of the parents.

Graphic: eBA Basketball Encyclopedia

Now, if you have a trait where there is no variation then obviously heritability is an incoherent concept.

If all the parents have value X and all the offspring have value X, and the whole population is of value X, then the chart to the left would simply display a point in space.

That point wouldn’t yield up any regression line. That does not mean that the trait is not genetic, rather, there is simply no phenotypic variation which is useful for statistical analysis.

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Hot Hand: The Statistics Behind Sports' Greatest Streaks by Alan Reifman Why streaks happen and why they matter ? Alan Reifman divulges the psychological and physical science behind streaks, analyzes the odds of streaks and why they happen and studies famous streaks, the players behind them, and their long-term effects. 'Hot Hand' also analyzes famous (and some not so famous) athletes and teams who have done things in streaks -- win games, lose games, make baskets, get hits in baseball, etc.

"... Should coaches stay with the player who's 'in a zone'? Should teammates feed the ball to the one who's 'on fire'?

Should athletes play with more confidence after making shots or getting hits, and with depleted confidence if not? Alan Reifman’s compelling answers are both persuasive and surprising, and will enable any coach, player, or fan to think smarter. ..."
David G. Myers, professor of psychology, Hope College, and author of Intuition: Its Powers and Perils

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Friday Press Clippings:
Trading ‘Small Forward’ for ‘Scoring Rebounder’

From Off the Dribble
By Rob Mahoney
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by Rob Mahoney


"... Statistics in basketball are, by nature, a qualitative means to an evaluative end. They exist to inform how well or how poorly a certain task is performed with the coldest precision; those measurements of frequency, accuracy and efficiency may not always have the context necessary to hold a life of their own, but they serve an incredibly useful descriptive purpose and guide the analysis of the game on a fundamental level. ..."

"... What if basketball analytics could, rather than merely provide a statistical evaluation of player or team performance, help to define a player’s position?

Evaluation will always be the highest goal of the analytic community, but within the spreadsheets of the brightest analysts also lies the exciting theoretical potential to redefine the entire scheme of basketball positions. ..."

"... Restricting players by putting them in one of five ambiguous classifications does not serve much practical purpose, and in an effort to present a positional model that would be of more use to those who assemble or analyze N.B.A. teams, Alagappan proposed the following 13 designations – to which players were assigned through a mathematical filtering of per-minute production:...... ..."

"... In a sense, current positional nomenclature is defined and affirmed by basic counting stats. Point guards are expected to pile up assists. Centers are expected to rack up rebounds. Basic statistical templates exist to reinforce the prototype at each position, and those who embrace unique styles of play often find themselves on the receiving end of veiled value judgments.

Terms like “combo guard” and “tweener” may not ooze with the same bile that they did a decade ago, but atypical players are still regarded with skepticism merely because of their perceived ill fit in an outdated paradigm. ..."

"... Maybe there was a day when small forwards were small forwards and point guards were point guards, but that’s certainly not the case in 2012 – not when the best team in the East has its top playmakers on the wing and the best team in the West has one of the league’s most dangerous scorers as its point guard.

The league has never been more ripe for change, and with the analytics world on the brink of some impressive new faculties, perhaps the time has finally come to shake up another of basketball’s core tenets. ..."

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' El juego de transición posicional en el baloncesto ' by MsC. Jorge Isidro Borges Rodríguez.

Friday Video Clippings:
The Date

A short film about romance and soup, "The Date" chronicles the love of two friends that develops organically over a bowl of soup.

Written and directed by Academy Award Winner Luke Matheny.

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' El Chichipato ' por Felipe Moreno Salazar.

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Matt Bollant:
Wisconsin-Green Bay Offense 3-Pack
with Matt Bollant

Matt Bollant, Wisconsin-Green Bay: Has become one of the most sought after coaches in women’s basketball. Has built Wisconsin-Green Bay to the point where they are more successful than their in-state rival, Wisconsin.

In his five years at the helm, Bollant has compiled an stonishing 148-19 (88.6%) record: 4 NCAA tournament appearances with a Sweet Sixteen showing in 2011, 5 Horizon League regular season titles, 4 Horizon League tournament titles, 4-time Horizon League Coach of the Year and also named Kay Yow National Coach of the Year in 2011.

During his tenure he has guided his team to being ranked as high as ninth in the country. Was a finalist for the Wisconsin job last year.
What gives Bollant an edge? Name recognition, has built Wisconsin-Green Bay to a top 10 program nationally.

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e-BAsketball Advanced Statistics GREAT DEBATE:
This month HEADLINES Updates !

• "... To Analyze the Basketball Stats into More Significant Blocks
¿ How Competent is the Per Minute Played Analysis ? ..."
Mario F. Dunwhilly on APRIL 25, 2012

• "... The MVP IS NOT the Most Excellent Player in the League
Best Player NOT Related to "Advanced" Statistics ..."
Orlando Appiccella on APRIL 23, 2012

• "... With Wayne Winston, a Major Statistical Gurus in the World !
Wayne Winston, Rudy Fernandez and the Plus Minus Stat ..."
Rene G. Montiel on APRIL 21, 2012

• "... Advanced Stats Are NOT Different From a Scientific Thesis
Conventional, Advanced Stats & Efficiency in Basketball ..."
Brian Denver on APRIL 19, 2012

• "... It Appears Like There Is Some Subjectiveness with the A.S.
Dissimilar by Only One Singular Statistical Metric ! ..."
Sandra Mossinson on APRIL 17, 2012

• "... Avd. Stats are Still a Better Tool than Conventional Statistics
Advanced Stats are a terribly efficient tool ..."
Jorge Dunwhilly on APRIL 15, 2012

• "... About HOW TO Applicate & Interpretate the Advanced Stats
What IS and what IS NOT "Statistically Meaningful" ..."
Jorge Sebastiani on APRIL 13, 2012

The interesting and acrimonious debate about the basketball "advanced statistics" and the "conventional statistics", being intensively carried out at our eBA Stats Group Sites, greatly surpassed our expectations !


Consequently, a new eBA Web Site (our 12th !) was opened at 'e-BAsketball Advanced Statistics Debate Blog' where the best contents are found !

We are centralizing here all the messages posted all through our 12 sites about the GREAT DEBATE about ' Basketball Statistics, Statisticians AND / OR / WITH Advanced Stats ' ! You are invited to participate with your opinions and comments !

Enter this debate, read the discussions, participate and be present WITH YOUR OPINION ! It's really worth ! Comments are free and you can also follow us at this new eBA Blog !‏

Full Registered eBA Members 2012 can contribute with this new eBA initiative !

YOU ARE ALL WELCOME !

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Black Men Can't Shoot By Scott N. Brooks Black Men Can’t Shoot provides an ethnographic account of the lives of two young black men—Ray and Jermaine—as they work to become “known” as great all players, and the implications of their doing so for their life chances. The book is based on field research Professor Brooks conducted in Philadelphia, as a coach, mentor and friend, over a four-year period.

It is a clearly written, accessible and compelling sociological story about social networks, opportunity structures, and the setbacks and successes that characterize adolescence, perhaps especially urban adolescence.
BMCS is a very good book.

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'It's Not Crazy, It's Sports !'
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Kelvin Sampson's Youth Basketball 2-Pack
with Kelvin Sampson

Gritty defense and rebounding are the backbone of Sampson's teams. His philosophy is "letting defense be our foundation and playing from that end of the floor." On the other end of the floor he uses a mixture of a simple 1-3-1 motion offense and set plays.

"... It's important for any coach to have a philosophy. You have to understand what you are and what you're trying to accomplish. It's like winning: We all want to win the game, but sometimes coaches aren't sure how they want to win.

They have great respect for the each other. We've always had great team chemistry; it's very much a family-type atmosphere, and our kids compete their tails off. That's something we've always taken a lot of pride in.

I've always believed that fatigue is the universal language for losers. We never want our kids to succumb to fatigue. That's why we work so hard ..." Sampson says.

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 • Run Time: 143 minutes

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Basketball Statistics Referred Concepts:
About the Possession Scoring Record System Concept ~ Concept & Statistics

Being designed to collect as much information as possible about a game, the Possession Scoring Record System let us calculate probabilities of scoring for both teams over equal number of trials. Focusing on the player with the ball, following the ball from player to player until the ball is turned over to the opposition through a shot attempt or turnover.

Let us follow an example: team A with ball possession, can score, commit a turnover, or not get a rebound, the team B gets the ball. For each opportunity that team A get to score, team B also get a chance.

This system sees by getting an offensive rebound, this keep alive its opportunity to score rather than producing another chance. Registering in this way, possessions are same number for both teams in a game. At the same time as each team has the same 40 / 48 minutes in a game to outpoint its opponent., each team has the same approximately 85 (in 40 minutes) / 100 (in 48 minutes) possessions in a game to outpoint its opponent.

In a non-overtime game, it is possible that each team will have as two more possessions than its opponents: see the reference to “1st. and last possession” at the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System.

Battle for Possession of the Ball in a Photograph by Streeter Lecka

As was mentioned earlier, for this schools of thought on possessions, this formula is assuming that an offensive board "continues the possession", or "keeps the possession alive". On the second school of thought, including the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System, prefer to think of offensive rebounds and securing another possession. In which case total rebounds would be used instead of defensive in any possession formula.

A scoring possession is defined as a possession on which one or more points are scored. Then – and this is another topic – we define the ratio of scoring possessions to total possession as “floor percentage”.

Another formulas ( see 'eBA Formulas’ ) to study about this topic are:

Team Possessions = FGA - Oreb + TO + Up to Line Made ( see the eBA System )
Team Scoring Possession = any possession on which the team scores at least 1 point
Individual Floor Percentage = the ratio of a player's scoring possessions to his total possessions
Individual Scoring Possessions = contribution to a team scoring possession through field goals, free throws, assists, and offensive rebounds.
Individual Possessions = sum of a player's scoring possessions, missed shots and free throws that are rebounded by the defense, and turnovers. ”.

( Excerpt from the introduction to my exposition "Basketball Possessions Analysis" at the eBA Basketball Statistics Clinics. )

Read More at eBA CLINICS ONLINE, search "points off turnovers" in this blog and consult the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System.

This topic is resumed in the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System and at the eBA Encyclopedia.

Actuality News
NBA 2011/12: Wednesday`s Top 10 Plays of the Night!

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The Butler Way: The Best of Butler Basketball by David Woods with Foreword by Clark Kellogg The Butler Way is a term used since the 2006-07 men's NCAA college basketball season by broadcasters and sportswriters nationwide to describe the governing philosophy of the Butler Bulldogs, one of the most successful mid-major programs. The Butler Way demands commitment, denies selfishness and accepts reality, yet seeks constant improvement while promoting the good of the team above self.

The Butler Way was originally forged by Butler University's legendary coach and administrator, Tony Hinkle.
Butler Bulldogs' Athletic Director Barry Collier is often credited with resurrecting the term and its underlying attitude during his time as the Butler University Men's Basketball coach from 1989 through 2000.

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 • Author: David Woods
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Friday Press Clippings:
What the "Stat Gurus" Say Does NOT Correspond with Reality

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By David Friedman
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' What the "Stat Gurus" Say Does not Correspond with Reality '
by David Friedman

"... A "stat guru" thinks that a team of five Tyson Chandlers would be unbeatable because such a team would shoot almost .700 from the field while hardly allowing the opposition to get off a good shot; it never occurs to the "stat guru" that a team of five Tyson Chandlers would not be able to dribble the ball up the court without getting it stolen and even if the Chandler Five somehow managed to get the ball into a half court set that group would not be able to create the point blank shots that enable the real Chandler to have such a high field goal percentage. ..."

"... One of the big headlines in the NBA on Wednesday night was Bynum's 30 rebound game versus San Antonio as the Lakers defeated the Spurs 98-84 even though Bryant missed his third straight game due to a shin injury.

It is certainly impressive that Bynum posted such a huge rebounding total (even though he padded that number a bit by tracking down his own point blank misses) and the Lakers would be well served if Bynum consistently focused on defense and rebounding as opposed to worrying about the number/distance of his field goal attempts but the real story about the Lakers during Bryant's absence--the story that the "stat gurus" and their friends in the media will ignore--is that Bynum and Gasol's field goal percentages have cratered. ..."

"... If a "stat guru" admits the flaws in his methodologies then he is killing the goose that is laying his golden eggs.

That is why no "stat guru" who has published books and/or articles proclaiming that he alone knows how to rank players can possibly acknowledge that he is wrong (a "stat guru" who works for an NBA team and is trying to use numbers to help that team gain an edge can perhaps modify his theories to fit new data but you will never hear about this because teams do not want to publicly release such information and thus give away whatever edge they think they are gaining) ..."

"...Then there are the media members who have various personal and/or commercial agendas that prevent them from ever backtracking from supporting the "stat guru" orthodoxy (I would also not discount the possibility that some of the media sycophants for "stat gurus" are actually morons who really do not understand anything about math or basketball). ..."

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Friday Video Clippings:
Dejavu by Sarath Babu

Dejavu is a Malayalam short film based on the theme "dejavu".

Written and Directed by Sarath Babu.

Dejavu (French word) is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation.

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' Juan con miedo ' de Daniel Romero.

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Dave Paulsen:
All Access Bucknell Basketball Practice
with Dave Paulsen

"... I am honored and humbled to be given the opportunity to continue my coaching career at such a special institution...

I believe that Bucknell is unique among Division I institutions in its commitment to excellence both academically and athletically.

I have never had more fun coaching a group of young men than I did this season because of their relentless work ethic, tremendous focus and inspiring unselfishness.

We are proud of the accomplishments of this year's team, but also hungry to constantly improve and carry on the tradition of great basketball teams that have characterized Bucknell basketball history. ..."
Coach Dave Paulsen

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