APBRmetrics

Thanks to basketball-reference.com, we now have the data to see where players take their shots from. I decided to run a multiple regression in Excel (while bored at work) to examine the player’s fta/fga ratio as the dependant variable compared to where they take their shots from and their ft%. Turns...

Awesome! Thanks for doing that. I guess I just have to direct my anger to the Blazer's front office for not drafting KD. I find the FTr stat really interesting and was always something I kept my eye on. Especially with OKC being in the top 10 for the past 5 years. But I never got around you explorin...

@MikeG That is what I figured. I guess I need to look at where KD is at when fouls are called on hi But someone who gets 1/4 of their total points from the ft line, just makes me wonder if us non-Thuder fans have to deal with league bias. I am still bitter from the "goaltending" call a few...

For some reason I just do not think Kevin Durant is as good as the national media says he is. I do not think he is overrated, but I also think he gets a little help from the league. As of 1/27/14, the correlation of fg% to ft% is -.48 (that is pretty significant even though I know correlation is not...