Last week, I unveiled a Google Motion Chart that included a large number of advanced stats comparing point guards. This week, we'll start at the other end: centers. I actually am including players classified as either C or PF/C by BasketballValue, where I got the position information.
Most people feel that the position...
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Last week, I unveiled my . This week, I’ll explore some of the decisions I made with that system, per the request of . The first question is how much the ranking are effected by using rest-days adjustments. See my original research on APBRmetrics for where this comes from. Here’s a table comparing the...
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Last week, I unveiled the first iteration of my . This week, I’ll revise and expand on it. The main thing I didn’t like about the chart was the 5-game moving averages. The games dropping off the far end of the moving average add just as much movement as the newest game adds. The...
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The concept of With-or-Without-You is very basic. If you are playing, is our team better or worse? If the team is worse with you available, then that’s a really bad sign! It’s the core concept behind such basketball metrics as +/-, Statistical Plus/Minus and Advanced Plus/Minus. In baseball, Tom Tango and MGL work with...
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Recently, I developed a method for analyzing single games through the Advanced Statistical Plus/Minus (ASPM) lens. Basically, in order to keep the data in the range where the weights for the stats makes sense (some of the weights are nonlinear), I add several games worth of average stats to the player’s stat line. I...
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There are many ways to rank NBA teams; some better than others. This method runs as follows...
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Hi, I’m Daniel (known as DSMok1 elsewhere), and this will be my first attempt at some fancy Google Visualizations. On my fancy new website.
This viz plots the 5-game TRAILING moving averages for each team in the NBA up through January 4th. It’s a bunch of data; we’ll see if the Google API...
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