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Originally Posted by cbax9888
Assani what makes you and the "other qualified nba people here" so qualified do u have a phd in basketball or are you just self proclaimed qualified
Without looking anything up(honor system), give me a basic description of what the following stats mean and then give a brief paragraph saying the strengths of each stat, the weaknesses of each stat, and your view of their overall usefullness.
TS%
eFG%
APM
Roland Rating
PER
Win Shares
Wages of Wins
Defensive Rating
Offensive Rating
Pythagorean W/L
VAA
VAR
I could literally write a 5 page essay on any one of those stats right now(and those who know me on here, know that I sometimes will get carried away and make ultra long posts about these sort of things). I've spent hours and hours debating the merits of each of these stats with other threadzilla regs. I've also spent hours and hours discussing the merits of analyzing games through watching them....we've discussed things such as accounting for biases when watching, selective memory, and the benefits of charting our own stats which aren't kept anywhere else.
If you want some background on me personally, I was a DII college basketball player, I worked as head statistician for our men and women's teams after I graduated, and if not for poker I most likely would be in coaching right now. This past year, I was a part of a NBA betting team which put forth a very complex program to try to beat Vegas betting lines(although I'll be the first to admit that kbfc, another threadzilla reg, deserves 99.99% of the credit for that and I was mostly along for the ride).
And despite all of this, I don't even consider myself one of the most knowledgeable people on this forum when it comes to basketball. I think I'm maybe top 10.