sports.aol.com - 9/14/2007
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Filed under: Top Five FanHouse's Top Five scans the sports blogosphere for the best posts of the last 24 hours so you don't have to. Got something for this feature? Hit us up at fanhouse@googlegroups.com. 1) If you have any interest in professional basketball and advanced statistics at all, the past, oh, three days have been a boon. It started with a thought-provoking post at Plissken at ...
No stupid questions, just confused bloggers
weritegoode.blogspot.com 9/11/2007 — I don't carry a calculator, have never read Bill James, and barely survived high school math. That said, I'm a total stathead...at least for certain metrics. The good ones. Like PER. A quick background on PER, for readers who've avoided ESPN.com the ...
Love and Mathematics Pt. 2: The Paul Millsap Quandary
ballhype.com 9/12/2007 — Over the past few days, there's been lots of discussion about advanced basketball metrics -- and specifically per-minute statistics -- among bloggers. Skip this paragraph if you know what's going on. Otherwise: It started with Carter Blanchard of Plissken at the Buzzer, who refuted the usefulness of John Hollinger's PER and the basic per-minute statistic. I defended PER on Saturday, ...
ESPN.com - Blogs - John Hollinger Blog
insider.espn.go.com 9/12/2007 — WEBLOG | RSS | PRINT BLOG John Hollinger began writing for ESPN.com Insider in 2005. He's best known for his analytical work, including creating the Player Efficiency Rating (PER), a statistical rating of an NBA player's per-minute productivity. He's ...
The Paul Millsap Doctrine
ballhype.com 9/18/2007 — Our last baptism of per-minute eroticism surfaced some valid concerns regarding causation; we studied year-to-year jumps in minutes, which served to shroud our evidence players don't get worse when they get more minutes by failing to control for situational changes and summertime improvement. Fair enough. Free Darko's Silverbird5000 offered a suggestion for more lucid study: One way to ...
