Archive for May, 2010

As you can tell, it has something to do with the Pacers

Written by Ian Levy Our first look at correlations between Effective Height and defending the paint was earlier this week. That post was inspired by another post from Tom Haberstroh at Hardwood Paroxysm comparing Effective Height to team rebounding rates. To recap, Haberstroh created the metric of Effective Height, which is the average height of a team with the heights of respective players weighted by the number of minutes they played. Haberstroh found moderate correlations between eHeight and Total and Offensive Rebound rates. I then took his eHeight numbers and compared them to a few team defensive categories: Block Rate, [...]

Written by Ian Levy Also seen at ilevy.wordpress.com This post came dangerously close to being the second installment of my Random Number Generator series. In the end the numbers weren’t so much random as they were predictable and led to extremely obvious conclusions. I was very intrigued by Tom Haberstroh’s effective height post at Hardwood Paroxysm last week. One bit of minutiae that I loved was the way he color-coded his tables. Now that I have discovered this feature on Excel you can expect to see a lot more of it! I also discovered how to calculate statistical correlations with [...]

The Washington Wizards hold the number one pick of the 2010 NBA Draft after winning the lottery. This now holds questions. Should the Wizards take John Wall? Should they take someone else? Should they take someone they need on their team? All of these are questions for this Washington team, and with many more to come as the draft is over a month away. I have my own opinion here. Washington, stop going for the needs and stick with the talent right now. Pick the best player. And we all know how that is. John Wall. So what if Gilbert [...]

People who gamble know the meaning of going “on tilt.” Tilt happens when things are going poorly, and you get frustrated, and try to win all or most of your money back right away (which usually results in losing more). I’ll give an example. Let’s say I’m playing poker. I start out pretty well, winning a few hands here and there and steadily gaining chips. All of a sudden, lady luck decides to rain on my parade. I can’t get a good hand and when I do someone else gets lucky and wins. Now I’m down to a fraction of [...]

There’s a new statistical tool I came across of after reading a wonderful post by Ian Levy. It was the player-swap tool over at Queen City Hoops, a Charlotte Bobcats blog that is part of ESPN’s TrueHoop network. I fell in love with it after making different combos. Then at one point, I decided to swap two star small forwards in Danny Granger and LeBron James. First, we’ll start with how LeBron James affects the Indiana Pacers, if he were to magically come over in a simple trade for Granger. Before we start that, here are both of the player’s [...]

Written by Ian Levy Last week, Tom Haberstroh had an excellent post at Hardwood Paroxysm, examining the relationship between a team’s collective height and their rebounding performance. He gathered the height measurements for each player and then weighted it by the minutes they played for their team. The result was a metric he calls “effective height.” Haberstroh found their to be a decent correlation (.33) between effective height and total rebounding percentage. When looking at rebounding by category there was almost no correlation (-0.03) between effective height and defensive rebounding percentage, but a reasonably strong correlation (0.42) between effective height and offensive [...]

Newcomers into the NBA tonight. Looking forward to it. Looking forward to who Indy drafts. GET THE NUMBER ONE PICK!!! Witness greatness.

The Los Angeles Clippers really didn’t have an enjoyable year. But there is something enjoyable to look for. The off-season. In the 2010 NBA Draft, the Clippers are projected to get Cole Aldrich. But what’s the point in that when you have Blake Griffin, Drew Gooden, and Chris Kaman? But even if they do get him, it won’t fill in the spot the Clippers need to fill in at the most: small forward. Let’s face it, the Los Angeles Clippers are weak at that spot. I don’t think there’s a chance in the world they are able to land LeBron [...]

Now this is a chart of Effective-Weight Height. Its shows how it effects The rebounding percentages. I’m not to worried but the effective-height there, but the rebounding? Oh my! You can check out more with cool charts and all that at HP. The more you know, Pacers fans