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In a guest post this morning for excellent True Hoop affiliate Hardwood Paroxysm, DJ Turtleface—greatest pseudonym ever?—of SBN’s Straight Outta Vancouver checks in with a discussion of his fantasy basketball league and the now-ubiquitous science of advanced NBA statistics:
As these advanced statistics and mathematical analyses approach perfection, the dark secrets will continue to slip into everyone’s hands. Where can you go from there? …
I felt this trouble in my fantasy draft last night. I said somebody talked about rebounding rates; they were mentioning after I drafted Kevin Love. They mentioned projected minutes per game after I snagged Michael Beasely…
Everybody forgot about young guys because they were trapped in the player rater while I watched the games. I know these boys can f’n ball because I’ve seen them do it with my own two eyes – not because of their face-time with David Berri. And that’s why I’m convinced that the ultimate counter to the statistical revolution will, in the end, be good old fashioned basketball.
Lots of good stuff, there, and worth checking out, as fantasy sports really do present us with a perfect allegory—now that everyone knows everything about stats and everyone reads fantasy previews, what’s next? Who gets the edge?
Perhaps, in a world besieged by PER and WINVAL and WoW and all sorts of other stat acronyms, simply “watching basketball and evaluating talent” will once again be the most prized of virtues.
Death of Autotune APBRmetrics? Not really, but their preeminence in basketball may be shortlived.
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