Comments on: BoxScores http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com Anything but arbitrary. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:22:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: The best of the WNBA, updated daily « The Arbitrarian http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/boxscores/#comment-387 The best of the WNBA, updated daily « The Arbitrarian Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0000 http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/?page_id=148#comment-387 [...] BoxScores [...] [...] BoxScores [...]

]]> By: NBA playing style spectrum « The Arbitrarian http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/boxscores/#comment-378 NBA playing style spectrum « The Arbitrarian Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:11:50 +0000 http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/?page_id=148#comment-378 [...] BoxScores [...] [...] BoxScores [...]

]]> By: Predicting the future, by analogy « The Arbitrarian http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/boxscores/#comment-375 Predicting the future, by analogy « The Arbitrarian Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:50:16 +0000 http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/?page_id=148#comment-375 [...] BoxScores [...] [...] BoxScores [...]

]]> By: d sparks http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/boxscores/#comment-373 d sparks Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:43:25 +0000 http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/?page_id=148#comment-373 Christopher: Excellent article at draftexpress. I wish I had such data for college players. I agree, strength-of-schedule is crucial, although I think it's less significant in the NBA than in the NCAA, where variance in team and player quality is greater. I might take a look at player performance versus opponent quality sometime when I get the time. I make all the graphics in R, mostly with custom code. If you'd like to see the code for something, just let me know, and I'll (probably) post it. As for the data... there is unfortunately no such zip file, to my knowledge, and if you ask, all you'll get is "it took me X hours and Y dollars to put this data together!!!". All I can tell you, sadly, is ctrl-C, ctrl-V.... Christopher: Excellent article at draftexpress. I wish I had such data for college players. I agree, strength-of-schedule is crucial, although I think it’s less significant in the NBA than in the NCAA, where variance in team and player quality is greater. I might take a look at player performance versus opponent quality sometime when I get the time.

I make all the graphics in R, mostly with custom code. If you’d like to see the code for something, just let me know, and I’ll (probably) post it.

As for the data… there is unfortunately no such zip file, to my knowledge, and if you ask, all you’ll get is “it took me X hours and Y dollars to put this data together!!!”. All I can tell you, sadly, is ctrl-C, ctrl-V….

]]> By: Mr. Consistency « The Arbitrarian http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/boxscores/#comment-369 Mr. Consistency « The Arbitrarian Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:12:12 +0000 http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/?page_id=148#comment-369 [...] BoxScores [...] [...] BoxScores [...]

]]> By: Christopher http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/boxscores/#comment-367 Christopher Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:28:41 +0000 http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/?page_id=148#comment-367 Thanks. have you seen: http://www.draftexpress.com/article/2008-Win-Scores-NBA-Draft-Preview-2932 That's one of many reasons I think SOS matters. I would just love to be able to filter PER, WS, BoxScores by, say, quartiles of a quality distribution. Not to mention splits in the usual sense. Thanks for your patience for my questions: 2 more too :) How did you generate your graphs? Was that done in R too? And where did you get the data? I know it's out there somewhere but is there some site where you can just download a zip file of box scores since the merger, for example? Thanks. have you seen:

http://www.draftexpress.com/article/2008-Win-Scores-NBA-Draft-Preview-2932

That’s one of many reasons I think SOS matters. I would just love to be able to filter PER, WS, BoxScores by, say, quartiles of a quality distribution. Not to mention splits in the usual sense.

Thanks for your patience for my questions: 2 more too :)

How did you generate your graphs? Was that done in R too?

And where did you get the data? I know it’s out there somewhere but is there some site where you can just download a zip file of box scores since the merger, for example?

]]> By: d sparks http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/boxscores/#comment-363 d sparks Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:08:28 +0000 http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/?page_id=148#comment-363 Christopher: Strength of competition would be interesting to investigate, but in terms of productivity, strictly speaking, the opponent ought not matter. A win is a win is a win, regardless of the opponent. If you want to attempt to measure talent, or something else, it might be worth controlling for strength of competition, and it's certainly an interesting idea. In the regression, I don't have points on the right hand side, because points is on the lhs. And then, since I'm regressing on point differential: team points - opponent points, at a single-game level, I do go ahead and assume that every point scored increases point differential by one. Christopher: Strength of competition would be interesting to investigate, but in terms of productivity, strictly speaking, the opponent ought not matter. A win is a win is a win, regardless of the opponent. If you want to attempt to measure talent, or something else, it might be worth controlling for strength of competition, and it’s certainly an interesting idea.

In the regression, I don’t have points on the right hand side, because points is on the lhs. And then, since I’m regressing on point differential: team points – opponent points, at a single-game level, I do go ahead and assume that every point scored increases point differential by one.

]]> By: Christopher http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/boxscores/#comment-362 Christopher Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:24:01 +0000 http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/?page_id=148#comment-362 Another thought, and this ties into my pet peeve about WOW: What about strength of competition? I firmly believe that dropping 30-10-8 against Seattle should be worth much less that doing the same against, say, Detroit. Also, in your base regression die you use PTS on the rhs or just assume the coeff. is unity? Another thought, and this ties into my pet peeve about WOW: What about strength of competition? I firmly believe that dropping 30-10-8 against Seattle should be worth much less that doing the same against, say, Detroit.

Also, in your base regression die you use PTS on the rhs or just assume the coeff. is unity?

]]> By: Improving Brand’s Image « The Arbitrarian http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/boxscores/#comment-343 Improving Brand’s Image « The Arbitrarian Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:06:11 +0000 http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/?page_id=148#comment-343 [...] BoxScores [...] [...] BoxScores [...]

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