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In response to Morey saying "you have to figure out what the model is good and bad at", I remember talking to Philip Maymin about draft models and he said "If you had a scout that was wrong 100% of the time, you'd pay him millions of dollars because you could just do the exact opposit...

I know all of Durant, for example, isn't the same set of data as KD with Russ but with Russ is a high % of all of KD and doesn't this data suggest KD w/o Russ is about as good as KD and Russ together combined, maybe even better? I'll check but I'd be surprised if the raw plus minus data looks that ...

Nate wrote:So, will you be back in a year with a new and different crowning achievement in basketball analytics? I guess we can only hope so.

That's Philip's MO!!!!

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Crow wrote:Any indication teams pay attention to the academic literature on this topic?

I certainly do. If the academic literature is good, why try and reinvent the wheel! (You can always try and tweak/test, I guess)