Did anyone here read this paper on roster flexibility in baseball
http://www.sloansportsconference.com/wp ... uction.pdf
and have thoughts about it and its possible application to the NBA?
I know these are just presentation slides
http://www.sloansportsconference.com/wp ... 012PPT.pdf
but I didn't find the fancy visualization tool presented here (similar to what David Sparks did years ago) as useful as it was just visually interesting. I think the message is probably actually better carried / more easily used by means of a table or text. But I guess the visualization gives it a wow factor that impressed some more than me.
It would have strengthened the dataset alot in my opinion to include a shooting or scoring efficiency element.
I'd also really like to see someone do a player typology using a mix of both boxscore and RAPM data.