APBRmetrics

The idea of "skills" instead of positions is something that I really love. In my opinion, basketball is more or less played by a primary creator, secondary creator, wing shooter/defender, stretch big and pick and roll dive man/rim protector. This explains the diminishing returns of throwin...

I think I may have it somewhat down. A player that is averaging 36.661 MPG, has an ORB% of 4.8965, a DRB% of 17.5524, STL% of 2.1903, BLK% of 0.7866, AST% of 15.7123, TOV% of .1353 (when converted into the correct format), a 30.9514 USG%, TS% of .4656 on a team with a TS% of .5253, a 3PAr of .2807 i...

Apologies if this seems very naive, but what would need to be undertaken to move BPM across to a different league? If I am able to obtain all of the relevant box score statistics, would I be able to use the NBA coefficients in another league such as the Australian or New Zealand league? Or would I h...

Thanks heaps.

The trouble is getting all of the lineup data - does anyone have any tools to be able to strip this easily? Currently I am taking the play by play data from the box score and going through and recording all of the lineups myself - as you can imagine it is an arduous task.

I was thinking about trying to work in some APM into the Australian league that I cover. The Australian league is an eight team league where each team plays 28 games. Obviously the sample is relatively small - the minutes leader last year logged just 993 minutes. What are some of the challenges that...