Tag Archives: Win Shares

The Rookie of the Year Debate

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Alex

The guys at Wages of Wins recently posted about Kyrie Irving, who is potentially in the lead for the ROY award although he is not, according to WP, even the best rookie point guard this year.  That honor belongs to … Continue reading →

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NBA Retrodiction Contest: Blend Update

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Alex

A couple of people asked about potential overfitting for the blends I mentioned in the last retrodiction post.  After a couple days of waiting for the iterations to run, mixed with multiple restarts for completely unnecessary computer lock-ups, here you … Continue reading →

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NBA Retrodiction Contest Part 3: The Perfect Blend

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Alex

In the first two posts in this series I looked at how well various NBA productivity metrics can explain what happened and predict what will happen.  But I think at least some people would say that they would never stick … Continue reading →

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NBA Retrodiction Contest Part 2: The Goods

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Alex

In part 1 I tantalized you with the ability of different NBA productivity metrics to explain what happened.  This time we get to the important part, which is their ability to predict the next season.

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NBA Retrodiction Contest Part 1: What Happened?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Alex

So with my happy new database, I’ve been sitting on updating my project of predicting past outcomes to compare different NBA productivity metrics.  But that is true no more.  Here goes.

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Consistency of Metrics

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Alex

One of the things that I’ve looked at before as a pet project is the consistency of metrics across seasons.  For example, I mocked up some fake versions of Wins Produced, PER, and NBA Efficiency and found that Wins Produced … Continue reading →

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NBA Database Update

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Alex

I’ve made a few updates to my NBA player stats database, so I’ve reposted the sheet on Google Docs here.  I added a few columns, described below, and caught an error.  The new WP numbers were wrong for players with … Continue reading →

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NBA Metrics: Can We All Get Along?

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Alex

With my new data set, I thought I would take a look at how the various metrics relate to each other.  Please check that link for a description of the data set and links to all the sources.  Obviously there … Continue reading →

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Merry Belated Christmas

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Alex

My holiday project this year was to finally get Win Share data from basketball-reference.com.  I was able to write some code that grabbed each player from each team in the past 8 years (excluding, of course, the Bobcats, who didn’t … Continue reading →

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Did the Hornets Get a Better Deal?

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Alex

I wasn’t originally planning on talking about the Chris Paul deal that actually went through.  Plenty of people cover that, and my previous post was aimed more at my confusion over why David Stern would have vetoed the Lakers trade.  … Continue reading →

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