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Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:54 am
by Neil Paine
Well, here's my research. I took RAPM, ASPM, PER, Win Shares/48, & Wins Produced/48 data from 2001-2012, and tried to predict future team wins from how a team's players did in a metric 1, 2, and 3 seasons before. In all cases, players who had less than 250 minutes in the season from which I drew the metric (Y-1, Y-2, or Y-3) were assigned the league averages of 0.0 RAPM/ASPM, 15 PER, and 0.100 WS48/WP48. (This is essentially an update of the Rosenbaum study, with new metrics added.)
Here's an example of one team, the 2007 Orlando Magic:
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player_id mp-1 mp per-1 rapm-1 aspm-1 ws48-1 wp48-1 per-2 rapm-2 aspm-2 ws48-2 wp48-2 per-3 rapm-3 aspm-3 ws48-3 wp48-3
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howardw01 3021 3023 19.3 4.5 1.5 0.137 0.211 17.2 -0.2 0.9 0.131 0.227 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100
nelsoja01 1784 2331 19.5 0.6 2.1 0.132 0.121 14.5 -2.5 -0.8 0.074 0.045 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100
turkohe01 2615 2268 16.7 0.4 0.9 0.140 0.138 16.0 -0.6 -1.5 0.092 0.041 14.1 2.5 1.7 0.155 0.164
hillgr01 613 2009 19.0 -0.1 1.2 0.130 0.117 20.0 0.0 1.6 0.136 0.146 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100
milicda01 767 1913 15.2 -1.1 -1.1 0.073 0.044 4.7 -2.0 -6.5 -0.031 -0.208 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100
battito01 2215 1575 12.2 -1.5 -0.7 0.083 0.037 8.6 -1.8 -1.6 0.051 0.010 11.9 -1.1 -2.0 0.074 0.045
doolike01 1137 1435 12.6 -2.2 -1.9 0.046 0.008 10.1 -2.9 -2.7 0.061 -0.008 10.0 -3.6 -2.7 0.013 -0.042
arroyca01 1194 1304 15.6 -1.2 -1.0 0.107 0.088 11.3 -3.9 -2.2 0.043 0.000 16.8 -0.9 0.9 0.112 0.074
arizatr01 999 1278 11.8 1.2 -0.9 0.043 0.154 13.3 -0.5 -1.4 0.073 0.118 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100
boganke01 1912 990 10.7 -1.3 -1.7 0.058 0.063 10.4 -1.5 -3.4 0.002 -0.019 11.0 -2.5 -2.6 0.034 0.110
redicjj01 0 622 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100
outlabo01 355 460 11.8 -1.5 -0.4 0.101 0.149 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100 13.1 2.8 1.1 0.107 0.167
dienetr01 246 288 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100
garripa01 938 277 9.1 -4.0 -3.0 0.062 -0.031 9.1 -4.4 -3.6 0.054 -0.070 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100
augusja01 0 7 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.100 0.100
That team had the following minute-weighted averages in each metric:
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year_id team_id wpct per-1 rapm-1 aspm-1 ws48-1 wp48-1 per-2 rapm-2 aspm-2 ws48-2 wp48-2 per-3 rapm-3 aspm-3 ws48-3 wp48-3
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2007 ORL 0.488 15.865 0.251 0.136 0.103 0.109 13.379 -1.367 -1.383 0.074 0.052 14.153 -0.181 -0.204 0.095 0.093
Do that for every team, and run the correlations between each metric and winning percentage in Year Y, and this is what you get:
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--Correlation vs Wins--
Metric Y-1 Y-2 Y-3
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PER 0.638 0.546 0.502
RAPM 0.751 0.646 0.568
ASPM 0.723 0.610 0.532
WS/48 0.694 0.547 0.494
WP/48 0.654 0.492 0.440
If we're sorting that by correlation in each period of time:
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Metric Y-1 Metric Y-2 Metric Y-3
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RAPM 0.751 RAPM 0.646 RAPM 0.568
ASPM 0.723 ASPM 0.610 ASPM 0.532
WS/48 0.694 WS/48 0.547 PER 0.502
WP/48 0.654 PER 0.546 WS/48 0.494
PER 0.638 WP/48 0.492 WP/48 0.440
Wins Produced does beat PER in prediction if we look at player performance in each metric last year. But the more time that goes by, the worse and worse WP gets relative to the competition. For anything beyond one year ago, you'd be better off knowing each player's PER (much less his RAPM, ASPM, and WS48) than his WP48 if you wanted to make accurate predictions.
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:33 am
by v-zero
Excellent stuff Neil, very interesting. Any chance of including previous year SRS as a sanity check?
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:12 pm
by DSMok1
Excellent, Neil!
Do you have some idea why you see the trends you do? It is my thought, as I mentioned, that WP is by far the worst when dealing with "new" lineups, but is fine enough (as any stat summing to eff. dif. would be) if we are looking at the same lineups as the previous year.
Any way to look at only lineups that are "new"? Looking at Y+3 would be a proxy for that; almost every lineup would be new.
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:15 pm
by Neil Paine
v-zero wrote:Excellent stuff Neil, very interesting. Any chance of including previous year SRS as a sanity check?
Sure, here were the correlations vs WPct in Year Y:
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SRS from... Corr vs Wins Y
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Y-1 0.616
Y-2 0.405
Y-3 0.247
So knowing any of these metrics does at least help you predict better than if you just knew how the team as a whole did the previous year, but remember as well that the metrics have a huge unfair advantage vs SRS: they know the distribution of minutes to each player ahead of time.
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:21 pm
by Neil Paine
DSMok1 wrote:Excellent, Neil!
Do you have some idea why you see the trends you do? It is my thought, as I mentioned, that WP is by far the worst when dealing with "new" lineups, but is fine enough (as any stat summing to eff. dif. would be) if we are looking at the same lineups as the previous year.
Any way to look at only lineups that are "new"? Looking at Y+3 would be a proxy for that; almost every lineup would be new.
I think that's the case as well. WP relies so heavily on team adjustments and other aspects of production that don't "belong" to the player himself (overvaluing rebounding, which has been shown by Phil Birnbaum, Guy Molyneaux & others to be more a product of coaching/strategy/role on the team than player talent; undervaluing shot creation, which is a more "portable" skill; etc.) that when you take the player out of the context he put up his WP in, the metric becomes completely useless. Even for Win Shares, the team defensive adjustment seems to "wear off" over time, to the point that you should be indifferent whether to use WS/48 or PER after 2-3 years.
I agree on testing using teams with a lot of roster turnover. That's something I've espoused
here and
here in the past, but haven't really tested for these advanced metrics. Perhaps we could have the seeds for a future ESPN article!
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:29 pm
by v-zero
Last sanity-check suggestion: give each player a rating equal to one-fifth their team's rating per 100 pos or per 48 minutes, and use that as a very simple player metric. That will fulfil the famed 95% (or whatever it is) R-squared that wins produced gets in-sample, and could be considered the 'baseline' for any metric that sums to point differential.
Thanks for everything you've done so far, very useful - a good use of the BBRef database! Also congrats to DSMok1, very nice result for ASPM there.
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:43 pm
by deepak
Thanks Neil.
So, you show predictions based on player stats 1 season ago, 2 season ago, and 3 seasons ago. For which season(s) did you get those final correlation results?
Not sure which version of RAPM you looked at, but if its the version using the previous year as a prior wouldn't it be at an advantage, since it is inherently incorporating multiple years of information?
I'm curious how each stat would fare if the prediction was made based on multiple years of information. E.g. weighted Y1 + 0.5*Y2 + 0.25*Y3.
For roster turnover, here are some results I got recently that might help. For each team/season, it gives the % of players on the roster who've played at least 20% of the team's available minutes and also played at least 1 minute for the team in the preceding year. I would suggest that teams for which the percentage is < 50% may be of particular interest.
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Tm 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 avg
okl 87.5% 100.0% 100.0% 66.7% 50.0% 60.0% 88.9% 70.0% 80.0% 81.8% 75.0% 78.2%
san 83.3% 80.0% 88.9% 60.0% 80.0% 88.9% 90.0% 80.0% 60.0% 62.5% 70.0% 76.7%
lal 40.0% 70.0% 77.8% 87.5% 100.0% 80.0% 75.0% 77.8% 22.2% 63.6% 88.9% 71.2%
det 70.0% 66.7% 83.3% 50.0% 72.7% 66.7% 77.8% 85.7% 85.7% 57.1% 66.7% 71.1%
uta 75.0% 72.7% 50.0% 90.0% 88.9% 87.5% 77.8% 63.6% 50.0% 66.7% 55.6% 70.7%
den 88.9% 63.6% 77.8% 77.8% 66.7% 100.0% 66.7% 90.0% 60.0% 40.0% 36.4% 69.8%
ind 66.7% 66.7% 72.7% 60.0% 44.4% 80.0% 50.0% 72.7% 81.8% 80.0% 90.0% 69.6%
por 66.7% 62.5% 77.8% 77.8% 66.7% 66.7% 50.0% 66.7% 72.7% 77.8% 72.7% 68.9%
bos 55.6% 55.6% 100.0% 80.0% 100.0% 50.0% 81.8% 66.7% 60.0% 40.0% 66.7% 68.8%
hou 44.4% 77.8% 72.7% 60.0% 72.7% 87.5% 87.5% 55.6% 40.0% 83.3% 66.7% 68.0%
phi 55.6% 88.9% 66.7% 54.5% 70.0% 66.7% 66.7% 87.5% 80.0% 66.7% 44.4% 68.0%
bro 60.0% 54.5% 30.0% 72.7% 40.0% 80.0% 72.7% 100.0% 44.4% 88.9% 88.9% 66.6%
sac 75.0% 54.5% 63.6% 55.6% 75.0% 66.7% 88.9% 50.0% 55.6% 66.7% 77.8% 66.3%
dal 44.4% 63.6% 77.8% 66.7% 77.8% 72.7% 77.8% 80.0% 50.0% 28.6% 80.0% 65.4%
mia 87.5% 80.0% 45.5% 77.8% 60.0% 70.0% 90.9% 50.0% 44.4% 42.9% 70.0% 65.4%
atl 45.5% 54.5% 100.0% 87.5% 75.0% 66.7% 70.0% 55.6% 20.0% 60.0% 75.0% 64.5%
pho 50.0% 60.0% 60.0% 88.9% 62.5% 66.7% 100.0% 37.5% 37.5% 77.8% 66.7% 64.3%
mem 60.0% 66.7% 77.8% 50.0% 50.0% 62.5% 70.0% 55.6% 90.0% 70.0% 54.5% 64.3%
chi 66.7% 90.9% 36.4% 75.0% 77.8% 72.7% 55.6% 77.8% 40.0% 37.5% 70.0% 63.7%
gsw 37.5% 54.5% 62.5% 71.4% 54.5% 100.0% 66.7% 80.0% 70.0% 25.0% 77.8% 63.6%
nyk 55.6% 50.0% 33.3% 87.5% 71.4% 80.0% 81.8% 40.0% 66.7% 44.4% 88.9% 63.6%
cle 60.0% 70.0% 54.5% 63.6% 88.9% 80.0% 90.0% 44.4% 40.0% 40.0% 54.5% 62.4%
orl 33.3% 88.9% 60.0% 60.0% 54.5% 75.0% 90.0% 87.5% 22.2% 44.4% 70.0% 62.4%
nor 40.0% 54.5% 37.5% 63.6% 66.7% 87.5% 55.6% 50.0% 30.0% 70.0% 88.9% 58.6%
tor 50.0% 81.8% 60.0% 30.0% 70.0% 70.0% 40.0% 50.0% 75.0% 37.5% 66.7% 57.4%
lac 50.0% 50.0% 44.4% 75.0% 20.0% 60.0% 87.5% 55.6% 54.5% 45.5% 72.7% 55.9%
cha 44.4% 54.5% 77.8% 55.6% 50.0% 62.5% 72.7% 75.0% 0.0% 54.7%
min 55.6% 72.7% 45.5% 40.0% 50.0% 44.4% 62.5% 44.4% 88.9% 22.2% 70.0% 54.2%
mil 80.0% 54.5% 50.0% 36.4% 60.0% 55.6% 40.0% 45.5% 63.6% 44.4% 63.6% 54.0%
Here is another table which shows the percentage of player-minute allocations in the current season that did not exist in the preceding season. So, for each player, I took the lesser of X and Y where X is the percentage of minutes he played for the team this season and Y is the percentage of minutes he played for the team in the preceding season. Add up the percentages for each team, and I get this result. So if all the players from the preceding season returned, but their minutes allocation changed, this will reflect that.
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Tm 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 avg
san 67.3% 63.1% 74.4% 49.7% 66.2% 79.7% 74.8% 73.2% 51.5% 54.3% 62.5% 65.1%
okl 70.7% 74.4% 81.9% 61.7% 52.7% 55.7% 63.8% 63.7% 64.8% 57.2% 63.4% 64.5%
det 62.7% 62.0% 68.5% 43.4% 67.9% 68.7% 69.5% 86.6% 65.6% 36.5% 62.0% 63.0%
lal 39.0% 67.9% 79.7% 70.8% 73.7% 64.4% 64.2% 46.1% 22.4% 53.8% 83.4% 60.5%
pho 42.8% 61.7% 59.3% 64.5% 53.0% 74.6% 76.7% 36.8% 48.9% 63.0% 63.9% 58.7%
dal 36.4% 59.4% 62.5% 62.4% 64.4% 70.7% 69.6% 72.5% 43.8% 35.4% 67.3% 58.6%
phi 45.3% 84.1% 57.9% 56.0% 74.1% 62.2% 55.4% 61.0% 48.0% 53.2% 40.8% 58.0%
uta 65.2% 56.6% 44.2% 75.7% 76.2% 75.0% 60.8% 52.4% 38.1% 34.1% 57.7% 57.8%
mem 61.6% 61.4% 71.0% 58.5% 41.6% 47.5% 47.4% 49.6% 77.6% 58.8% 56.9% 57.4%
sac 76.6% 46.1% 54.3% 46.8% 58.4% 55.5% 67.5% 42.3% 42.5% 58.9% 77.4% 56.9%
bos 53.4% 53.1% 62.5% 75.5% 81.9% 36.2% 54.9% 56.8% 50.2% 39.8% 59.0% 56.7%
ind 54.5% 58.1% 58.5% 49.0% 46.7% 58.7% 42.0% 64.3% 59.3% 65.6% 63.8% 56.4%
chi 52.3% 75.8% 45.1% 52.1% 61.2% 68.1% 61.8% 71.2% 37.8% 37.2% 43.1% 55.1%
atl 41.4% 54.3% 83.5% 73.3% 65.4% 63.3% 69.5% 45.5% 8.8% 44.1% 49.0% 54.4%
por 45.2% 50.9% 55.4% 56.3% 65.5% 52.9% 41.2% 47.6% 51.4% 57.4% 72.1% 54.2%
den 59.3% 43.5% 67.8% 70.7% 50.2% 62.9% 46.0% 72.7% 62.1% 28.2% 20.0% 53.0%
cle 46.7% 50.2% 45.9% 61.9% 56.8% 67.5% 75.2% 54.6% 42.4% 40.3% 38.6% 52.7%
mia 79.0% 63.9% 38.8% 61.9% 38.8% 43.6% 77.0% 42.9% 38.7% 37.5% 41.0% 51.2%
hou 19.8% 55.8% 57.4% 47.8% 58.0% 70.5% 59.1% 45.8% 28.6% 58.8% 59.3% 51.0%
tor 50.8% 67.8% 47.2% 35.3% 64.3% 62.8% 36.6% 48.7% 53.5% 31.6% 50.7% 49.9%
bro 27.4% 34.2% 28.7% 58.8% 28.3% 62.6% 60.0% 61.5% 39.3% 69.2% 73.7% 49.4%
nyk 44.7% 37.0% 28.9% 63.3% 45.8% 63.5% 67.6% 33.1% 41.6% 40.6% 77.1% 49.4%
orl 28.6% 68.5% 51.8% 51.4% 56.3% 58.2% 64.4% 66.8% 5.1% 29.6% 56.5% 48.8%
nor 33.6% 38.8% 38.0% 54.6% 64.9% 56.2% 47.8% 28.7% 34.6% 65.2% 67.8% 48.2%
gsw 36.1% 46.6% 38.0% 43.9% 40.2% 66.1% 46.1% 75.7% 47.5% 22.6% 66.7% 48.1%
lac 49.3% 43.0% 33.8% 53.7% 19.5% 61.8% 74.0% 45.0% 54.1% 39.5% 52.5% 47.8%
min 47.3% 67.0% 29.6% 32.0% 50.5% 25.4% 57.6% 53.8% 68.5% 27.2% 61.7% 47.3%
cha 43.7% 38.4% 55.2% 49.8% 50.1% 56.6% 52.9% 53.8% 0.0% 44.5%
mil 59.1% 45.1% 53.4% 36.3% 34.1% 49.6% 32.3% 36.4% 57.8% 24.6% 59.3% 44.4%
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:18 pm
by Neil Paine
deepak wrote:Thanks Neil.
So, you show predictions based on player stats 1 season ago, 2 season ago, and 3 seasons ago. For which season(s) did you get those final correlation results?
Not sure which version of RAPM you looked at, but if its the version using the previous year as a prior wouldn't it be at an advantage, since it is inherently incorporating multiple years of information?
I'm curious how each stat would fare if the prediction was made based on multiple years of information. E.g. weighted Y1 + 0.5*Y2 + 0.25*Y3.
The 1-year correlations were against team-season winning %s from 2002-2012. 2-year, 2003-12; 3-year, 2004-12.
I used the RAPMs you can still find on Jerry's site (i.e.,
http://stats-for-the-nba.appspot.com/ratings/2010.html). Those only use previous seasons as a prior, so I never "predicted" using any information that you wouldn't have had available before the season being predicted. In other words, when predicting the 2007-08 season, I used Jerry's 2006-07 RAPM, and Daniel's 2006-07 ASPM, Justin's 2006-07 Win Shares, etc. The only quibble you could have in this department is that ASPM was trained on a RAPM dataset that spanned all of 2001-12, so in that case I'm using a model that was built from data that wouldn't have been completely available at the time, but the model itself isn't using inputs with any future knowledge.
I can test the predictive accuracy of a weighted version of each metric at some point; that's been suggested a couple of times and I definitely think that's a reasonable request. What should the weighting be, though? The
Simple Projection System uses 6-3-1 with 1000 minutes of the mean thrown in as well. I can do it that way if everyone deems that a fair measure. Then I wouldn't even have to set everyone whose MP-1 < 250 to average -- the regression-to-the-mean term would take of that automatically.
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:39 pm
by deepak
Neil Paine wrote:I used the RAPMs you can still find on Jerry's site (i.e.,
http://stats-for-the-nba.appspot.com/ratings/2010.html). Those only use previous seasons as a prior, so I never "predicted" using any information that you wouldn't have had available before the season being predicted. In other words, when predicting the 2007-08 season, I used Jerry's 2006-07 RAPM, and Daniel's 2006-07 ASPM, Justin's 2006-07 Win Shares, etc. The only quibble you could have in this department is that ASPM was trained on a RAPM dataset that spanned all of 2001-12, so in that case I'm using a model that was built from data that wouldn't have been completely available at the time, but the model itself isn't using inputs with any future knowledge.
I can test the predictive accuracy of a weighted version of each metric at some point; that's been suggested a couple of times and I definitely think that's a reasonable request. What should the weighting be, though? The
Simple Projection System uses 6-3-1 with 1000 minutes of the mean thrown in as well. I can do it that way if everyone deems that a fair measure. Then I wouldn't even have to set everyone whose MP-1 < 250 to average -- the regression-to-the-mean term would take of that automatically.
That's sounds good. I was just curious about RAPM doing relatively better than the other stats. Its a result that surprised me, frankly, because I usually think of all APM variants as have some noise problem. Maybe I underestimated how good a job J.E. did in stabilizing the results. It uses a 1-year prior, but really even that is based on multiple past seasons worth of information, isn't it? So, I think maybe looking at a weighted version for all stats could be a more "fair" comparison.
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:27 pm
by v-zero
I would suggest that 9:3:1 is a better ratio, but otherwise that sounds like a good idea. You could also simply include all three years of metrics in a single regression and have the regression decide the weights.
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:43 pm
by xkonk
deepak wrote: It uses a 1-year prior, but really even that is based on multiple past seasons worth of information, isn't it? So, I think maybe looking at a weighted version for all stats could be a more "fair" comparison.
That's my intuition as well, and I think was mentioned in one of the Sport Skeptic posts in that series. As Neil mentions, though, it would be a bit of an enterprise to figure out what those weights should be.
Another idea to keep in mind is that the varieties of RAPM (and by extension ASPM) were built to be predictive models while PER, WS, and WP were built to be explanatory models. This post
http://sportskeptic.wordpress.com/2011/ ... g-problem/ showed that simply regressing WP scores a bit toward the mean improved its predictive ability. That could be a sign that the latter group of models are suffering because they are more likely to have outlier scores that (possibly) describe what actually happened but are unlikely to occur again.
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:03 pm
by v-zero
If they are accurately measuring what happened, and they are representative of a measurement of some underlying statistical quantity, then their mean represents an unbiased estimate of that quantity (assuming a few things hold). What that implies is that they should be the best unbiased estimate of themselves for future prediction, so if they fail to predict then they also are failing to accurately explain.
I.E. If you claim to measure how well a player played, then that measurement should also predict how well that player plays in future, unless the player's performance is drawn entirely at random - if player game-to-game performance isn't entirely random, then accurate measurements of it should lead to better future predictions. Ergo if WP predicts badly in comparison to others it is because it is less able to accurately measure the level of play of players from game to game, and hence fails because it is flawed, not because it creates outliers. Maybe it does create outliers, but if it does it is because it is flawed.
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:30 pm
by TheSpiceWeasel
deepak wrote:Not sure which version of RAPM you looked at, but if its the version using the previous year as a prior wouldn't it be at an advantage, since it is inherently incorporating multiple years of information?
Wait, so you're saying that using more information can confer an advantage? No way!!!
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:33 pm
by DSMok1
Neil Paine wrote:
I used the RAPMs you can still find on Jerry's site (i.e.,
http://stats-for-the-nba.appspot.com/ratings/2010.html). Those only use previous seasons as a prior, so I never "predicted" using any information that you wouldn't have had available before the season being predicted.
Note: that RAPM is actually xRAPM, which uses box-score information in the prior (which is a large reason why it is so stable). Search this forum for more information on that change.
xkonk wrote:Another idea to keep in mind is that the varieties of RAPM (and by extension ASPM) were built to be predictive models
ASPM was not built on a RAPM basis, it was built on a long-term average APM as its basis (ASPM was built to be descriptive of APM, and it's predictive ability hinges on it being better at being accurate descriptively).
Re: Is WP a legitimate stat?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:53 pm
by jbrocato23
DSMok1 wrote:
Note: that RAPM is actually xRAPM, which uses box-score information in the prior (which is a large reason why it is so stable). Search this forum for more information on that change.
Yes, and this distinction is very important because the use of the box score (as a prior and blended into the results themselves) provides stability, which ultimately helps the predictive ability of the metric.
J.E. discusses xRAPM in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8025&start=30