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
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




