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Reviewing the NBA Blog Previews, 08-09
Jason posted 4/16/2009 from ballhype.com
Last October, Jeff Clark from CelticsBlog coordinated yet another team-by-team season preview, featuring 63 NBA bloggers this time. As in 2006-07 and 2007-08, overoptimism was a general trend. As a result, this season brought plenty of disappointment: bloggers predicted a total of 236 more wins than their teams actually achieved.
Now that we have 3 years of predictions under our belts, I decided to plot actual vs. predicted wins for each team (throwing in 2005-06 actuals for context). Here's the result; click the team names below to update.
Interesting examples: ridiculous accuracy, great expectations, mediocrity defined, depressing trend.
Finally, this table compares the 2008-09 preview predictions to the each team's actual win total on the year. It's sortable—you can toggle the sort and direction by clicking the column headings.