Comments on: Advanced Stats http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/01/11/advanced-stats/ A New York Knicks Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Wed, 16 May 2012 15:43:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Short White Boy http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/01/11/advanced-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Short White Boy Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:40:12 +0000 http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/?p=285#comment-175 Yeah, Winston, the thing is it's much, much, much easier to do advanced stats in baseball because there are much fewer factors at any given moment. Like how well you hit has nothing to do with who your teammates are or who's out in left field, it's basically just about the batter and the pitcher, so it's easier to figure out causality. Also, a lot of the work that individual basketball teams do on advanced stats (the Houston Rockets lead the pack by far), they keep to themselves to try and get an inside edge. As a result, no one can really build off other people's work and everyone uses different metrics that're shrouded in secrecy. As you can see from the link you provided, there are 3 different ways of trying to evaluate a player's value (PER, Win Score, & Adjusted Plus/Minus), none of which quite match up perfectly. Yeah, Winston, the thing is it’s much, much, much easier to do advanced stats in baseball because there are much fewer factors at any given moment. Like how well you hit has nothing to do with who your teammates are or who’s out in left field, it’s basically just about the batter and the pitcher, so it’s easier to figure out causality.

Also, a lot of the work that individual basketball teams do on advanced stats (the Houston Rockets lead the pack by far), they keep to themselves to try and get an inside edge. As a result, no one can really build off other people’s work and everyone uses different metrics that’re shrouded in secrecy. As you can see from the link you provided, there are 3 different ways of trying to evaluate a player’s value (PER, Win Score, & Adjusted Plus/Minus), none of which quite match up perfectly.

]]> By: xandersdad http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/01/11/advanced-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-165 xandersdad Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:12:17 +0000 http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/?p=285#comment-165 Honestly, I don't really know much about advanced stats in B-ball. It intrigued me cause I know a little about advanced metrics in baseball (where I think it is a little more widespread), and I ran into them from another knicks blog. This should give you an idea of how busy my workday is. To illustrate my point, I was not aware of adjusted plus minus before you so eloquently explained it anyway, here was my first introduction to the subject http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=608 Honestly, I don’t really know much about advanced stats in B-ball. It intrigued me cause I know a little about advanced metrics in baseball (where I think it is a little more widespread), and I ran into them from another knicks blog. This should give you an idea of how busy my workday is.
To illustrate my point, I was not aware of adjusted plus minus before you so eloquently explained it
anyway, here was my first introduction to the subject
http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=608

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