BP: Pelton: Identifying Breakout Players

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ashman ashman posted 11/7/2007 from www.basketballprospectus.com [flag]
"How well does good per-minute performance portend future success? To test that, I turned to the "Diamond Rating," invented a few years ago by a former colleague of mine, Kevin Broom of RealGM.com. Looking to identify so-called "diamonds in the rough," Broom devised a simple general formula that works with any per-minute rating..." [link]

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BP: More Per-Minute Analysis
Published 11/8/2007 by Mike K. (KnickerBlogger) at KnickerBlogger.Net
www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=36 One of the arguments statistical analysts have made in favor of per-minute numbers is the ability to identify players stuck on the bench as breakout candidates when they get more minutes. A quintessential example is Milwaukee Bucks guard Michael Redd, who backed up Ray Allen early in his career before becoming an All-Star the year after Allen was dealt to Seattle. Andrei Kirilenko and Zach Randolph are other examples of players touted by analysts well before they became mainstream stars. How well does good per-minute ...

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Published 11/9/2007 by dleeder at The Globe and Mail - From Deep
... ). The recently launched Basketball Prospectus, which has been NCAA-heavy thus far, has an interesting piece on identifying breakout players in the NBA. Here's hoping that BP can become even a fraction of the operation that it's ...