APBRmetrics

I've long thought about taking a similar approach to APM, though frankly I don't have the statistical chops at this point to actually go and do so. To me, the question is both what role a player is playing and what roles the guys around him are playing in a given lineup. I feel like the biggest blin...

Batum's a fascinatingly difficult case, especially because his quality of play may've stagnated or even diminished this past year. His re-signing wasn't just Portland getting stars in their eyes over him; Minnesota tried to sign him and Portland had to match their offer so there was at least one ot...

When was the last time a guy was drafted 1st round who WASN'T extremely productive at their age (at the top of their age group) in college/international ball who actually was worth the guaranteed $$? No name jumps to my head, that's for sure. Most guys that are near NBA stars by year 2/3 were prett...

Would be interesting to try and compare guys based on their high school recruiting rankings, but there's admittedly a lot of variance from year to year, especially at the top. I have trouble getting behind the argument that these guys are ill prepared for the world if they don't go to college for a ...

Part of the issue from my perspective is that those who don't fully understand what something like RPM calculates are still more than happy to throw it around as some sort of end all be all rating. A few years ago when PER entered the mainstream, seeing people argue that player A was better than pla...

Complete shot in the dark, but looking for some sample SportVU coordinate data, even a minute worth would be tremendously helpful.

Before the season, would someone have been able to identify Green or Tucker as anything but marginal journeymen nearing the expiration date (28) for such players? The Morris brothers both stalled out in their development in year 2. What would indicate they'd suddenly take off in year 3 ? I think th...

If you're a decent coder you should be able to learn sufficient SQL in 5 days max. Regarding Adjusted Plus Minus, I think they just want to be sure that you know your way around regression techniques. While not the be-all end-all, regression can be useful for a lot of things, not just APM It's defi...

I've been trying to break into one of these types of jobs for a while now, it's absolutely as tough as everyone makes it out to be. If you want to get into a front office right now, the four things they seem to care about most are: -Databases (SQL). -Applying relatively advanced statistical concepts...

Much appreciated on the help, thanks for the info guys.

Hi all, I'm writing a paper for a class with John U. Bacon (hopefully that name resonates with a few people here) about the history of the three point line and three point shot in general. I'm wondering if anyone here who has done any research regarding the three point shot would be willing to parti...