Free Ballin’

I was just writing this into my post about the Freakonomics blog post, which lauds offensive rebounding, but I can’t write “Kobe” and “Jordan” in the same sentence (or even neighboring sentences) without…going on for a bit, so I figured I’d just post it separately. …Perhaps my favorite example of stats requiring context addresses my [...]

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This post by Ian Ayres on the NY Times Freakonomics blog, about offensive rebounds, seems ill-considered. He notes that the Celtics had an extraordinary offensive rebounding edge over the Lakers in the Finals and wondered “whether Lakers’ low number of offensive rebounds was just a matter of bad luck.” This comment assumes that getting offensive [...]

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