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The Basketball Prospectus Stats Pages: Introduction by Kevin Pelton
Basketball Prospectus — The APBRmetrics community has come a long way in a short time, and sometimes it is easy to forget the magnitude of that progress. I remember just five years ago, during the 2003-04 season, posting by hand leaderboards in various advanced statistics because they could not be found anywhere on the Internet. That memory makes me take a little extra pride in officially introducing Basketball Prospectus' NBA statistics pages. Surfing over to the statistics section , you will find a complete index of pages for each player and team. These pages are also linked in every Basketball ...

Basketball Prospectus Adds Stats Pages
Hoopinion — Kevin Pelton introduces the pages here. Atlanta Hawks team page. All players (alphabetical) here. I haven't had a chance to look at these with any seriousness yet but I can't imagine that another information resource could be a bad thing.

How Good a Free Agent Signing Was Flip Murray?
Hoopinion — ... you look at the performance of all free agents who changed teams last year I want to know where Flip Murray ranks in terms of contribution to wins vs salary spent. Like if you were to use something like Win Shares in baseball, how much has he cost per win (or whatever) compared to his peers? I'll look at Win Shares (courtesy Basketball-Reference.com), EWA (courtesy John Hollinger and ESPN.com), and WARP (courtesy Basketball Prospectus) for the best and most cost-effective free agent signings. ...

Back of the Envelope Projection for the Bobcats' 2009-10 Season
Rufus on Fire — ... the luxury tax if they use their full mid-level exception, we're pretty much tied to improving the team through the draft unless we can move a large contract... which everyone else is trying to do. So here's a back of the envelope projection for next season. I'll be slightly optimistic, putting Augustin in the starting lineup instead of Felton, and assigning playing time based on my common sense. Like I said: back of the envelope. Numbers are based on eyeballing Basketball Prospectus player cards and Basketball-Reference player pages. The totally ...

Should We Fear Them, Part IV: The Bulls
Boston Celtics Basketball - Celtics news, rumors and analysis - CelticsHub.com — ... Salmons and Luol Deng, who will start at the small forward spot, haven’t helped their teams defensively during that span, according to the various metrics at 82games, Basketball Prospectus and ...