Comments on: Layups: Multilevel Modeling, NBA Style http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2942 NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Jim_Thorpe http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2942&cpage=1#comment-11134 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:59:05 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2942#comment-11134 Random-effect models are fine to get slopes but I wouldn't uses them with the objective of forecasting particular players. The fact that each player has its own effect is useful to "correct" for it and avoid biasing the "average" estimates. For instance, every player that has some ability at shooting the threes but is not the prime perimeter player of the team (Ariza, Battier, Kapono...) gets a lot of open corner threes. If you were to estimate shooting ability by percentage at that spot, you would be understimating the importance of shooting corner threes in being a good perimeter player. Since corner threes are comparable across time and leagues, it is useful to compare players and its "right" effect must be assessed. I think that most (if not all) the studies presented at this web page should use either fixed or random panel data models for identification. In this sense, I view this as a step ahead.

]]> By: Jump http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2942&cpage=1#comment-10943 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:54:18 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2942#comment-10943 This is my third artice on this site and I am yet to find a debate? I love a good basketball debate but I can't seem to find one at the mo??? making predictions on age and past ability is interesting, how effective is a complete other story. Going to head over to Ryan's post for a look now, hopefully I can get my basketball debate fix over there!

Ben from the jump higher in basketball hub.

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