August 1st, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett As I mentioned in my piece last week, I’m lucky enough to count myself a writer for Nylon Calculus, the new analytics arm of Hardwood Paroxysm (under the Sports Illustrated/Fansided banner). Several of my colleagues are...
July 29th, 2014 | by
Laura Thompson I was looking at some stats for the team, and what stood out to me was the discrepancy between Trey Burke’s free-throw rate (.126) and Alec Burks’ (.449). Burks has a FTr better than 3.5x that of Burke’s. I don’t...
July 25th, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett In today’s media-savvy basketball world, there are a number of methods available to analysts like myself to evaluate players, teams, lineups and everything in between. As part of our natural human tendency, in many cases we...
July 3rd, 2014 | by
Dan Clayton Before you jump off the Gordon Hayward bandwagon, there are some things you should know. Particularly if your discomfort at the idea of matching a max or near-max offer sheet for the versatile wing has to do with...
June 20th, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett There’s so much going on this time of year for the Utah Jazz, from expected yearly events (next Thursday’s draft and the upcoming free agency period following it) to very rare occurrences for this franchise (a coaching...
April 10th, 2014 | by
Dan Clayton This week the basketball metrics community gave us another lens through which to analyze player performance. ESPN’s new Real Plus Minus (RPM) stat combines on-court plus/minus with absolute statistical contribution to give...
March 28th, 2014 | by
Dan Clayton Is our desire to analyze leading us to oversimplify a complex game? If a=b and b=c, then a=c. That immutable truth your junior high math teacher taught you is unquestionable. It’s tidy. It’s neat. It’s linear. It’s easy...
March 28th, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett As a long season winds down in Salt Lake City, we begin the transition to the offseason – both a look back at the results from the year that was, and a look forward to the future. In this year’s case, there will be somewhat...
March 6th, 2014 | by
Dan Clayton Ready for a bold prediction? I think the most significant early advances in the realm of video tracking will have to do with helping us understand and quantify the value of setting and using screens properly. The NBA, more than...
February 24th, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett When breaking down this wonderful game of basketball we all know and love, we typically start with general assessments: is this guy a good rebounder? How well does he understand the system and work with his teammates? Is he a...
