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Wages of Wins Weighs in on the MVP Race
bizofbasketball.com - 4/8/2008
Wages of Wins Weighs in on the MVP Race
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I have always believed that statistics are a very powerful tool that can be used to help us understand basketball (and many other things as well)--but statistics are a tool, not a perfect, all-knowing force, and a tool is only useful if it is the right one for a given job and if it is wielded skillfully by a knowledgeable person; a construction worker using a jackhammer would not do a good ...
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