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Some NBA owners, GMs and other NBA-types, including Mark Cuban, Kevin Pritchard, Avery Johnson, Bill Polian and Bill Simmons met at MIT recently for a discussion on analytics and the NBA.
On the topics of discussion were shot percentages, coaching decisions based off probability, the weight of a team's success on its superstars, and my personal favorite, a VERY detailed look at how officials call things with superstars vs. non-superstars, crunch time vs. the first half, etc. etc. The NBA has spent quite some time saying they try to officiate the games very evenly, when that is flat-out not the case, and this is really the first extensive study to prove it.
Lot of good reading here.
Key moments at MIT - TrueHoop Blog - ESPN
On the topics of discussion were shot percentages, coaching decisions based off probability, the weight of a team's success on its superstars, and my personal favorite, a VERY detailed look at how officials call things with superstars vs. non-superstars, crunch time vs. the first half, etc. etc. The NBA has spent quite some time saying they try to officiate the games very evenly, when that is flat-out not the case, and this is really the first extensive study to prove it.
Lot of good reading here.
Key moments at MIT - TrueHoop Blog - ESPN
