What A Season It Was, Wasn’t and Could Have Been: Reflecting on the 2013-14...
An inevitable trend often overwhelms the writing and thinking around professional sports. It extends into television, music, literary and film criticism, but it appears most widespread in sports...
View ArticleAtlanta Hawks: From Controversy to Chemistry, Team Culture, Selflessness, and...
Late last summer, after NBA observers were infatuated with the free-agency dealings of LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Pau Gasol, and others, the Atlanta Hawks made headlines. Not for signing any of these...
View ArticleCeltics Guard Isaiah Thomas (Jr.) and Divine Inspiration
ESPN Boston’s Celtics beat writer Chris Forsberg does a solid job covering the Celtics (with mostly rose-colored glasses, which is kind of necessary based on the last two seasons). In a recent...
View ArticleA Plea to the Box-Score Makers: Remove Plus-Minus for Single Games
Single-game plus-minus is often close to useless, which is why analytics folks have attempted to come up with better plus-minus indicators, such as ESPN’s Real Plus-Minus (RPM). Real plus-minus...
View ArticleJackie MacMullan, Jeff Van Gundy, Michael Lewis, Daryl Morey and Shane...
The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference still contains great panels, even if the conference has turned into a watered down, mainstream version of what it once was. Here’s a panel that I’m intrigued by....
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