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Press Clippings: Interview with ESPN's Fran Fraschilla

11/27/08

Press Clippings: Interview with ESPN's Fran Fraschilla

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Statistician's Digest:
Fran Fraschilla describes his player evaluation methods to David Friedman

From Fran Fraschilla by David Friedman in Yard Barker
Download source here: Exclusive Interview with ESPN's Fran Fraschilla, Part III

"... Particularly in the past 10 years or so, a lot of statistical analysis has come into basketball, a process that started with Bill James' baseball work.
You see this a lot in the NBA right now. I think that there is value to it but I also think that the trained eye is important. Without leading you to an answer, I'd be interested in your perspective on where you fall on the continuum that ranges from old school people who came up in an era that relied entirely on the trained eye and used only the most basic stats to the people on the other end of the continuum like Dave Berri at Wages of Wins who has the attitude that he does not even need to watch games, that the eye is biased and all that he needs to do is crunch numbers in a certain way and then he knows exactly what is happening.
You basically have two extremes: you have an old school guy who says, 'I don't care about the numbers because I know what I am seeing' and then you have Dave Berri who essentially says, 'I don't watch games. All I do is crunch numbers.'
Where do you, Fran Fraschilla, place yourself on that continuum and what do you think of that whole debate? ..."

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