Stat Geeks Reunite: NT Stats Geeks Thread (Long Overdue)

[memphisboi55]

P4L

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Doug Collins has no interest in advanced stats, would ‘blow his brains out’ if he had to read them
http://www.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/n...dvanced-stats-blow-brains-195542758--nba.html

 

[pmatic]

N.B.A.’s Site to Feature Updated Stat Database

Basketball’s statistical revolution — a movement begun in board rooms and on blogs and independent Web sites — has, at long last, reached its logical destination: the N.B.A.’s home page.

The league on Friday is unveiling a redesigned, fully sortable engine that will contain just about every statistic in N.B.A. history. And the database, located at NBA.com/stats, is free to the public.

The database contains every box score of every game played since the league’s inception in 1946. It graphically displays every player’s shooting tendencies. It allows fans to analyze and compare lineup combinations. And for the first time, the N.B.A.’s site includes advanced metrics — like true shooting percentage, usage rate and defensive efficiency — that have been available on other sites for years.

A version of the statistics tool was created six years ago, for exclusive use by N.B.A. teams. Last February, the league opened it up to reporters and bloggers who cover the league, as a sort of beta test. Now every fan will have access.

The engine, powered by SAP’s HANA platform, can process 4.5 quadrillion combinations of data, said Ken DeGennaro, the league’s vice president for information technology. The options go way beyond points per game and rebounding averages.

Statistics can be analyzed by season, by game, by month, by home and road games, by wins and losses, or by nearly any period of time set by the user. They can be sorted on a per-minute or even per-possession basis, providing more accurate comparisons between teams and players.

And for the first time, the N.B.A. is providing the advanced statistics that now drive the debate among serious fans. Those include effective field-goal percentage, which gives added weight to 3-pointers; true shooting percentage, which integrates 3-pointers, 2-pointers and free throws; and usage rate, which indicates how much a player dominates his team’s offense. (For the advanced-stats neophyte, an online glossary explains every term.)

These metrics have been available elsewhere for years, on sites like Basketball-Reference.com, HoopData.com and 82games.com. League officials said they were motivated not necessarily to catch up to the independent sites, but rather by the desire to give fans better tools to analyze the game.

“What drove us is to make sure that the record was straight,” said Steve Hellmuth, the league’s executive vice president for operations and technology. “In other words, these are the official statistics, directly from the N.B.A., and they’re accurate.”

Whereas the independent sites sometimes rely on estimates for metrics like possessions per game, the N.B.A. has the benefit of having the raw data. In addition, the NBA.com database will be updated within 15 minutes of the final buzzer of every game.

By next season, video will most likely be added, allowing fans to see the play behind each statistic.

Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver, who will succeed David Stern as commissioner next February, was a major driving force behind the project.

“Adam wanted to surface all of this information so fans could digest it the way they wanted to,” Hellmuth said, “so they could have their own view of the history of the N.B.A. and their own look into their favorite team. We didn’t want to keep it behind a curtain; we wanted to expose it.”

The statistics can be broken down by quarter, so a Miami Heat fan can see that LeBron James is far more likely to pass in the first quarter (116 assists this season entering Thursday) than in the fourth (71).

Shot charts illuminate a player’s best and worst shooting zones, so it becomes clear that Carmelo Anthony is much better off taking a midrange jumper from the right side of the basket (where he is shooting 52.6 percent this season) than from the same spot on the left (38.8 percent).

The leader board, which showed Kevin Durant averaging 29 points per game entering Thursday (edging Anthony’s 28.6), is enhanced by new categories, like points in the paint and true shooting percentage. Durant and Anthony may be close in scoring, but Durant is much more efficient, with a true shooting percentage of 65.7 to Anthony’s 56.4.

Team and individual statistics can also be adjusted for pace, so that fans can more accurately compare, for instance, the Houston Rockets (who average 98.7 possessions per game) with the Nets (who average 90.5).

Fans can also view every lineup combination used this season, so they can see whether Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol function better when they are on the court together or apart. Fans can then debate the results by sending a link to friends, via Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus.

Or they can eschew all the in-depth calculations and simply marvel at the box score from March 2, 1962, the night Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points. Some statistics, after all, do not require fancy analysis.

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Yes! I can't wait to use this.

 

[viewtiful mik3]

This is a big step forward,

I still think as it is now, the functionality is pretty limited.

There's no way to download / export the data. so it's pretty useless.

 

[mr marcus]

Advanced stats is what making college basketball vanilla...every coach running damn near the same offense these days

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Lance Stephenson triple-doubles
2010-11: 0
2011-12: 0
2012-13: 0
2013-14: Led NBA
2014-15: 0
2015-16: 0
2016-17: 0
2017-18: 0