This is, of course (wait for it), Kobe's fault.

Caught this in the Celtics Notebook, via the K Bros. Apparently Rasheed is picking up technicals at a fantastic rate--faster, possibly, than even the rate at which he is taking shots inside the arc. So the Celtics Notebook extrapolates how many technicals he would pick up in a full 82-game season, assuming he doesn't miss any games due to injury, personal matters, or, you know, the suspensions from the technicals that the Notebook itself points out that he'd draw.

A little blatant self-promotion here. I took a look at PER a couple of months back, and I take a look at APM now.

Goodness but these statisticians are confident in their own creations. I've heard Dean Oliver is a bit more circumspect, but I haven't seen it first-hand one way or the other.