Evan Zamir at The City recently unveiled Adjusted 4-Factors at the individual level, using a 2.5 year sample size and a Ridge Regression approach. The results are very interesting. Here, I’m simply converting his initial work into an interactive visualization. Powered by Tableau
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Inspired by Evan Zamir’s use of a treemap to visualize WARP over at The City, I created a treemap to visualize ASPM VORP for the 2012 season-to-date. I used Google Docs and the treemap-gviz widget to construct the visualization. I used the latest iteration of the ASPM framework to compile the data, and selected for display only those players who had played a significant...
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This is just a quick chart dump, based upon Neil Paine’s research at Basketball Reference:
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As I prepare to release my first work based on the Adjusted Plus/Minus and derivative methods, I felt it would be wise to write a plain-English review of the state-of-the-art of Adjusted Plus/Minus and its derivatives, or at least what is known in the public domain. What is Plus/Minus? Plus/Minus, at its core, simply compares how the team fares with the player on the...
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Again using my “game value” metrics, here are the 750 best offensive performances this year, in graphical form: Notes: Some players are in there many times: Dwyane Wade has 17, though none are very easy to see. Chris Paul and Lebron James had 16 each. Kevin Love has 14, Kevin Durant 13 (wait–this is missing last night… should be 14), Carmelo Anthony has 13,...
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