Comments on: Is There an NBA Live Curse? http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=370 NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Jared Ras http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=370&cpage=1#comment-12048 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:03:41 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=370#comment-12048 I don't like that "regression toward the mean" bit in the end. I mean, it's an argument perhaps for the Madden curse debate, but it doesn't apply here. In actuality, there is very little correlation between cover years and stat decline. That should have been the final point to drive home, not leaking into the Madden curse.

]]> By: Ryan M http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=370&cpage=1#comment-8433 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:50:58 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=370#comment-8433 Couldn't it just be that these players are peaking at the times that they're getting put on the covers?

Consider these players' numbers during Y-4 and Y+4...

]]> By: Peter G http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=370&cpage=1#comment-7608 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:35:56 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=370#comment-7608 Regression to the mean. Player does really well one year, is picked for the cover, then performance goes goes back to the mean.

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