Era of the Stat Rat

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    "Analytics ain't never won a basketball game."

    --Sir Chuckles
     
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    lul 76ers are #1.

    LOL.
     
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    The Blazers paragraph says that the 76ers stole our analytics brain, Ben Falk. The 76er blurb says the 76ers made him their Vice President. Then the site's ranking section ranks the 76ers as #1 among all baseball, football, and baseball teams.

    We lost a VIP.
     
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    Maybe Dr Frankenstein left Portland but Igor is still here. There's hope!
     
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    So now we're keeping statistics of statistics.
     
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    That's meta hawt
     
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    Kind of stupid rankings because teams keep their analytics departments confidential. Putting the Lakers, Nets and Knicks at the bottom of any list makes the list appear good. For all we know the Lakers have the most advanced analytics in the NBA.
     
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    The L*kers and Knicks are the Sears and Woolworth's of the NBA. Spurs are the MicroSoft, spinning off guys to the likes of Amazon.com and Facebook (Budenholzer, Presti, etc).

    And as an obtw, it starts with ownership. Maybe Jim Buss actually is a really smart dude who came up with an algorithm he tweaks waaaay more than anyone else in the league and blows guys like Pelton and Hollinger out of the water. Maybe Jimmy Dolan knows something the rest of us don't about how to build a winner in MSG based only on limited-wattage star power. Maybe Mikhail Prokhorov doesn't actually suck at business when he has to play by rules. Or, maybe, we can look at mountains of evidence to say "nope, whatever these guys THINK they're doing, it isn't working, isn't logical and doesn't have a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow."
     
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    Speaking of Barkley's comments:

    http://grantland.com/the-triangle/m...yl-morey-al-leiter-rob-neyer-nba-mlb-nfl-nhl/

     
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