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One-on-one with Wayne Winston

05/28/07

One-on-one with Wayne Winston

Permalink 23:18:32, Categories: Basketball, Comments  

About the Game and the Numbers:
"We don't care if you never score a point, If you make plays and help your team win, you don't have to score..." says Wayne Winston, a professor in the Operations and Decisions Technology Department at Indiana University.
"Use the mathematical tools of quantitative analysis to go beyond the box score and discover the hidden factors that contribute to victory..."
"You couldn't run a team completely on statistics, but anybody from the old school who doesn't pay attention to them is probably in the wrong. Everyone's looking for an edge. And this kind of information can give you one..."

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"The game moves so fast that unless you have somebody tabulating this and analyzing it properly, you're just not going to know. A lot of coaches think they know more than they do....."

"Basketball's a team sport, and lots of things aren't tracked," Winston says. "Like taking the charge, going through a screen, tipping a ball to your teammate, saving a ball from going out of bounds....."

"The information is a good reference point, but unlike in baseball where there are definable variables that enable a team to select players wisely, there are no such variables identified yet in Basketball. Personally, I think it's because we don't collect the right data..."


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