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The NBA league office is hiring for two basketball analytics jobs: Senior Specialist, Basketball Analytics: http://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_nba/external/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=5854&localeCode=en-us Project Employee, Basketball Operations Analytics T...

The Basketball Analytics open course at NYU will run again this fall, from October 22 to November 19, taught again by Jason Rosenfeld, Director of Basketball Analytics for the NBA league office. I figured some people here would be interested. http://www.scps.nyu.edu/academics/course_detail.html?id=T...

and a reference to a presentation at UNC by Nik Oza. Nik, is a link to this available? I haven't looked into the value of timing free agency and didn't present at UNC, but I think this is the presentation you were talking about: https://www.dropbox.com/s/crh524sjyiolymh/GeorgetownBasketballAnalytic...

Crow wrote:Is there a syllabus? Didn't see one.

Syllabus is not out yet, but might be fairly soon.

nileriver wrote:I would be interested but I am not seeing an online option.

There is no online option for the course as of now, but anyone who can take it at NYU can sign up.

Jason Rosenfeld, Director of Basketball Analytics at the NBA League Office is teaching an open course on basketball analytics at NYU this summer (July 21 - August 13). I figured a bunch of people here would be interested, particularly those just beginning to explore the field. Here is the link to th...

Mike G wrote: If you don't correct for home scorekeeping bias, you can overrate certain players. Ben Wallace is a prime example. In 2002-03, he blocked 140 shots at home and 90 on the road. Was he "given" an extra 50 or so blocks at home? In '04 again an "extra" 52 blocks at hom...

How can that be the reason, if that "That being said, many rookies are indeed worse than a minimum salary player (roughly 2 pts per 200 possessions below avg)." is true? The rookie prior has an effect on the value for the individual player (some may be "overrated" other might be...

All of this is mostly due to the rookie prior in RPM. That being said, many rookies are indeed worse than a minimum salary player (roughly 2 pts per 200 possessions below avg).

What do you mean?

Is there a scoring margin variable in the model?

i.e. if Team A is up 10 and scores at a certain rate per possession, the player ratings would be different than if Team A is down 10 and scores at the same rate per possession

Is this adjusted for margin? Would affect Ginobili's rating in a big way.

colts18 wrote: This methodology is flawed because I'm pretty sure the RAPM you are using, ESPN J.E., already has steals factored in it so you are double counting the stat. "we can use a different measure of defensive skill, that is Defensive Regularized Adjusted Plus Minus, or DRAPM for short....

A response to FiveThirtyEight's steal articles. It's really important to take into account position when it comes to steals and defensive value!

http://georgetownsportsanalysis.wordpre ... -position/

Looks useful for SPM development...but.........why is KD +1?

Because of his rookie and sophomore years

Here I've assumed an avg game is 48.4 minutes: There is 1 win per 484 player-minutes. The ratio (3.53/5.00) is .706 WAR per game. It looks as though players above replacement level are getting credit for all wins, and sub-R players are removing almost 30% of the total --?? More evidence that actual...

WAR can be thought of as reflecting the estimated impact of RPM x Possessions, by answering the counterfactual question: If all of this player's possessions this season had been taken instead by one or more players with the xRAPM impact of the typical "replacement-level" player (estimated...