Game 4 between Utah and L.A. last night provides an interesting data point in considering the usefulness of +/- as a basketball stat. We’ve all seen instances where a player who contributes very little statistically ends up with a phenomenally high +/- rating, while the team’s stars are rated as having played poorly. Occasionally, this [...]
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Statistics and basketball
28Mar09I hate how people are trying to apply statistics to basketball, like it’s some voodoo that could potentially unlock all sorts of answers and reduce the sport to a science. It’s a ridiculous, depressing and self-defeating (for sports fans, anyway) thing to do. The pompous proponents of this mentality are correct in arguing that there [...]
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