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I think non-prior RAPM can be very helpful, as both Kevin and PerMaximum have pointed out. The idea of understanding single season performance is decidedly different than the one of out-of-sample performance. As for doubting the validity of RAPM because Ronnie Price comes out on top, answer me this ...

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Thanks for the great resources on salaries. Any thoughts on getting a comprehensive list of free agents by year? I figured that this would be the tougher piece of data to acquire.

I'm getting ready to write my thesis and am looking for an easy way to gather data about each year's free agent crop and year-by-year salaries. Does anyone know of a place to get this data in a convenient format?

Thanks in advance.

I was trying to think through a theoretical question that I thought might be of interest to some on here: If you hold true player impact (RAPM, or whatever metric you want to use) and minutes played constant, should usage have any role in player value? To put it another way, should a higher usage pl...

Mike is right: OLS regression will yield an average value. But who said we immediately should run to OLS regression? I'm not singling out Nathan here, just wondering why OLS is privileged so much when we think about modeling in a "causal" framework.

I had posted something about this just before the board went down about 10 days ago, and it appears to have disappeared. I will try again: I've created some unique datasets related to the NCAA tournament and have successfully fit a survival (event time) model to the data. It appears to preform bette...

Anyone have thoughts on Tom Haberstroh's article which attempts to assign relative importance to drafting and spending in terms of producing wins?

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_ ... lance-myth

I wouldn't really call Mike Conley a false positive, especially after this year.