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Thanks Crow!

Dear all, I have problems to find information regarding Brick Index. I have found the following formula: BI = [(TS%league average - TS%player) * (FGA + (FTA*0.44))] / 40minutes I would like to know if this is the correct formula proposed by Hollinger and if there are similar proposed indexes. Thank ...

Hi Motherwell, I am not sure how to aggregate FDP, blocks and points in a single metric. The theoretical basis of FDP says that these three variables pertain to 3 different levels. Maybe it would be interesting to think how to convert these variables in a single one, but at this moment I do not know...

Thanks Crow. You are right.

Hi kjb, I think you did not understand correctly the rationale of FDP. This is explained in the paper and also in some of my prior posts. After going through this paper, it strikes me as an odd rating system. Players are penalized for missing shots, but not rewarded for making them. Basically, this ...

I'm curious... why did you use data from only 3 semi-random seasons? Hi wilq, because this was the data available. I did not have box-scores of seasons before 2006 in a friendly format. Thanks to www.nbastuffer.com, I obtained the box-scores from 2007 to 2011. Anyway, I think 3 seasons provide a no...

Yes, LeBron dammaged his team. I do not think he is a bad worker (do not missinterpret my analogy). And the average FDP is not 0, but -0.072 for the 2012 season. His contribution to point differential was negative, but obviously he made many points, so his coach surely prefer to count with LeBron. H...

Antother way of thinking about what it means FDP is soccer. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world (not very much in the USA). Players such Romario, Ronaldo (not CR7) and other famous players were very good scorers, but very bad workers for their team. Some coaches did not want such type of p...

xkonk, FDP is a form of obtaining the weight of some basic statistics in order to obtain a single metric which explain (with a noticeable merit) the outcome of games (points differential). When a player has a negative FDP, he is dammaging his team. Obviously, if he is a good scorer, then he is yield...

Hi J. E. I am not sure what you mean exactly with "out of sample prediction"...Sorry. If you refer to test the model in other samples, yes, this is what I have done by employing the usal procedure achieved in some data mining studies. Finally, FDP for the box-scores of the following two se...

Thanks for the comments. I think some of your comments are answered in the paper. Regarding your last question, yes, I used the fixed parameters estimated to get the r-squared, as I also wrote in the paper. You do not have interpreted correctly the results. LeBron James do not make a negative contri...

It has been published in May. This is an open access online journal.

Dear all, Recently, I have published a new paper regarding player evaluation metrics. My paper does not pretend to be any "revolutionary" idea to measure productivity of players, but another tool for coaches, analysts and fans, to help to analyse basketball players. The complete reference ...

Dear all, Dick Mays has revamped his coaching system based on the Magic Metric philosophy. Remember that I posted some material regarding this metric some months ago. I think it is a very interesting way of thinking about rotations in basketball. Maybe some coaches would be interested in the May's p...