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The Udoh Report

That is Udoh’s scouting report. Good enough for tenth overall and for Indy? I say so.

Pacers and Wins Produced

Written by Ian Levy Also seen at ilevy.wordpress.com Recently, Dave Berri, at the Wages of Wins Journal, put out a call looking for bloggers to use his statistical model, Wins Produced, to cover each…Read More

Crazy about Colors and Correlations, pt. 2

Written by Ian Levy This post is a follow-up to Crazy about Colors and Correlations, Pt. 1 in which I examined the correlations between Offensive Efficiency and some key offensive categories. These…Read More

Trading for a Championship

Also seen at ilevy.wordpress.com BY IAN LEVY Listening to Talking about Practice, Episode 11 this morning, I heard Jared Wade and Rob Mahoney discussing some of the deadline trades from this past NBA…Read More

Effective Height and Defending the Paint, Part 2

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…Read More

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Crazy about Colors and Correlations, Pt. 1

Written by Ian Levy Also seen at ilevy.wordpress.com This post came dangerously close to being the second…Read More

Swapping the King and Batman

There’s a new statistical tool I came across of after reading a wonderful post by Ian Levy. It…Read More

Effective Height and Defending the Paint

Written by Ian Levy Last week, Tom Haberstroh had an excellent post at Hardwood Paroxysm, examining…Read More

The More You Know

Now this is a chart of Effective-Weight Height. Its shows how it effects The rebounding percentages.…Read More

Random Number Generator Series – Forecasting Shotblocking

A random number generator (often abbreviated as RNG) is a computational or physical device designed…Read More

Efficiency Addendum

One of my first posts here at Hickory High was called Efficiency. It was in response to a quote from…Read More

…and other mythical beasts

I don’t want it to seem like I am out to singlehandedly destroy Eric Bledsoe’s draft stock . . .…Read More

Pelton’s Crystal Ball

Early March brought a lot of excitement to Pacerland when Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus let…Read More

Pacers Season Awards

Now that the season has mercifully ended, we have a few weeks to kill before the Draft Lottery. Once…Read More

Unicorns, Dragons, Mermaids and Eric Bledsoe as an NBA Point Guard

Eric Bledsoe has rocketed up a lot of people’s draft boards with his performance at the end of this…Read More

The More Things Change…

Depending on your viewpoint, things are looking up in Pacerland. Since the beginning of March the Pacers…Read More

Bad News Brandon

A depressing post by John Hollinger just went up on Truehoop. The gist of the post is that Brandon…Read More

Guest Post: Remember the Paint?

Written by Ian Levy from Hickory High As a fan of Danny Granger and the Pacers, this has been a…Read More

Statistical Analysis: Rim Defense

According to Tom Haberstroh of Hardwood Paroxsym, he made a chart of each team’s rim defenses: This…Read More

Statistical Analysis: How Do the Pacers Fair With Other Teams?

Below is a chart of how the Pacers fair out against other teams, courtesy of Basketball-Reference: Now,…Read More