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  • Changing the Culture II - Note: This post was originally published at College Basketball Reference, S-R's brand-new College Hoops site. All of the data used here can be found at S-R/CBB, so when you're done reading, go over and check it out! On Tuesday, I kicked off our CBB/BBR cross-posting series by looking at coaches who "changed the culture" of a [...]
  • Team Similarity Scores, Again - This is another stab at something I've worked on for years -- the idea is to take the performance for each team in the Four Factors, and find teams with similar profiles in the past to determine how teams of that ilk eventually do in the playoffs. Here's the methodology: Calculate the Four Factors for each [...]
  • CBB: Changing the Culture - Note: This post was originally published at College Basketball Reference, S-R's brand-new College Hoops site. All of the data used here can be found at S-R/CBB, so when you're done reading, go over and check it out! In the media, you often hear about certain players or coaches "changing the culture" of a program, ostensibly meaning [...]
  • Thoughts On the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference - On Saturday, I had the distinct honor and privilege of attending the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, where a virtual "who's who" of basketball analysts were on hand to listen to panelists that ranged from Daryl Morey, Mark Cuban, and Kevin Pritchard to John Hollinger, Dean Oliver, and even Bill Simmons. It was [...]
  • BBR Rankings: 2010-03-05 - Rising: Mavs (W-@ATL, W-NOH, W-@CHA, W-MIN), Grizzlies (L-CHA, W-@NYK, L-POR, W-@NOH, W-@CHI), Kings (W-UTA, W-LAC, L-@OKC, W-@HOU) Falling: Bulls (W-POR, L-@IND, L-ATL, L-MEM), Pistons (L-@DEN, L-@GSW, L-BOS, L-@NYK), Raptors (L-CLE, L-@OKC, L-@HOU) (Want to know how the BBR Rankings are calculated? Read this first... "MLE" = Maximum Likelihood Estimate.) Rank Prev Team W L WPct SOSRk Week MLE Rank 1 1 Cleveland Cavaliers 48 14 0.774 29 3-0 1.37455 1 2 2 Los Angeles Lakers 46 16 0.742 14 3-1 1.22264 2 3 4 Dallas Mavericks 41 21 0.661 5 4-0 0.87274 3 4 3 Orlando Magic 42 20 0.677 24 3-1 0.86247 4 5 6 Denver Nuggets 40 21 0.656 16 2-2 0.77189 5 6 5 Utah Jazz 39 22 0.639 2 2-2 0.76927 6 7 7 Atlanta Hawks 39 21 0.650 19 3-1 0.75445 7 8 8 Boston [...]

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