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• Layups: Effective Height, 2009-10 Edition

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  Last Friday, Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus looked at how much a teams "effective height" (height weighted by minutes played) matters in determining the quality of the team . Youll have to read the whole thing, but the basic gist is that there is a positive relationship between team height and win-loss ...
  2 days ago

• Layups: Name the All-Stars of the 2000s

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  We havent linked to a Sporcle quiz in a while, so heres one thats pretty fun: Can you name every NBA All-Star from 2000-2009 ?
  5 days ago

• Layups: Four Factors Adjusted +/-

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  Heres a really interesting development on the adjusted plus-minus front... Hoopnumbers , whose work with APM has been noted by us in the past , now has 3-year weighted APM scores for 2008-09 that break down every players impact in each of Dean Olivers Four Factors on both offense and defense. So now you can ...
  1 week ago

• Layups: Happy Thanksgiving

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  No basketball-related post or links today, just a Sporcle quiz on turkeys ... Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! (Fine, if you really want a Turkey Day post on hoops, last year we ran one on the best Thanksgiving Day performances since 1986 ... You can add Dwight Howard to that rebounding list, too, because he ...
  2 weeks ago

• Layups: Periodic Table of Blazers

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  The Trail Blazers blog Bust a Bucket was thinking about team chemistry recently, and what better way to work on some chemistry problems than to break out the old periodic table? Okay, not this one ... This one : "We narrowed it down to 108 of the most influential Blazers ever. However, keep the following ...
  2 weeks ago

• Layups: ABA Factoids

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  Perhaps youve heard Keith Law s name come up this week a time or two? Well, sorry to disappoint, but this link has nothing to do with his Cy Young ballot ... Instead, its a piece about the old ABA -- basically a handful of nuggets about the renegade league that changed pro hoops forever. And of course, if you like ...
  2 weeks ago

• Layups: Name the Team Scoring Leaders of the 2000s

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  From Sporcle , heres a great quiz about the decade that was the Oughts (1999-2000 thru 2008-09): Can you name each teams top 5 scorers during the 2000s?
  4 weeks ago

• Layups: 82games Debuts 2009-10 Stats

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  In case youre a hoops fan thats been living under a rock these past 6 years, 82games is the web destination for NBA game-tracking data, including plus/minus, counterpart stats, and a variety of other incredible numbers that you cant find anywhere else. Today Roland Beech released the 2009-10 stats pages, so ...
  4 weeks ago

• Layups: Quiz on NBA Given Names

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  Okay, so I finally made a Sporcle quiz myself, and I think it might just be the most brutal NBA quiz on that site: Can you name the NBA Players and Coaches Given Names? All you have to do is enter some combination of the players full name (i.e., first + last, or middle + last, etc.), but last names alone will not ...
  4 weeks ago

• YouTube Finds: Skeets Has Acting Tips For Hansbrough

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  Perhaps youve seen Tyler Hansbroughs Acura commercial: Um... The acting needs some work, no? But perhaps its not Tylers fault -- maybe its a breakdown in communication between he and his coach. No, not Jim OBrien... This coach : WOW!
  5 weeks ago

• Layups: The Most Accurate Adjusted +/- Yet

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  Hoopnumbers.com has debuted a method of calculating adjusted +/- with the lowest standard errors yet. If you want the gory mathematical details, go here and here first, but if you just want the results, check out the 3-year version and the single-year 2008-09 results... A (very) brief synopsis: Kevin ...
  5 weeks ago

• Layups: Name the PER Leaders For Every Season Since 1970

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  Sporcle actually e-mailed us and let us know about this one... Can you name the NBAs top 5 players in Player Efficiency Rating (PER) for every season between 1970 and 2009 ?
  5 weeks ago

• Layups: Can “The Book of Basketball” Stop a Bullet?

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  Bill Simmons new 700-page tome (and I just got it in the mail today, its a legit 700 pages, there are no typeface shenanigans going on here) is called "The Book of Basketball", and the amount of work he put into it certainly lives up to the titles lofty aspirations. But for as many trees that had to die to make ...
  5 weeks ago

• Layups: Uni Watch’s 2009-10 Preview

  
  Basketball-Reference.com Blog — Authority: 582
  You didnt think wed let the season begin without linking our favorite uniform gurus preview, did you? Over at ESPN , Paul Lukas breaks down all of the offseason changes that have nothing to do with roster movement, and yet feel only slightly less important... Its the 2010 Uni Watch NBA Preview !
  6 weeks ago

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