APBRmetrics

Using team salary data and team off/def ratings for the past ten years, I was able to construct this graph: http://imgur.com/NvEbGAH

I would expect that as team salaries increase, offensive ratings would increase, and defensive ratings would decrease.

But it seems like this expectation has only occurred recently (i.e. ~2007/2008)

Anybody know why this shift occurred then? Was it that front offices started focussing more on advanced statistics/they hired more John Hollinger's of the world (though J.H. was hired in 2004).

jaebradley wrote:Using team salary data and team off/def ratings for the past ten years, I was able to construct this graph: http://imgur.com/NvEbGAH

I would expect that as team salaries increase, offensive ratings would increase, and defensive ratings would decrease.

But it seems like this expectation has only occurred recently (i.e. ~2007/2008)

Anybody know why this shift occurred then? Was it that front offices started focussing more on advanced statistics/they hired more John Hollinger's of the world (though J.H. was hired in 2004).

I think Isiah's Knicks might be single-handedly destroying the correlation!

They're no exactly setting the world on fire now, either, going after Bargnani.

Part of the shift may be more availability and hopefully more use of analytics. Part of it may be related to changed CBA salary constraints and related impacts.