6th May 2011
Basketball StatHead: May 6, 2011
Today at StatHead (with a little catch-up from yesterday), check out more research on the psychology of the Hot Hand, how Orlando's high-variance style cost them, and the best college coaches of the past 5 years, among other links.
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4th May 2011
Basketball StatHead: May 4, 2011
Today's Stathead entries include links to TrueHoop, John Hollinger, and the Wall Street Journal's Daily Fix.
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3rd May 2011
Basketball StatHead: May 3, 2011
Today's Stathead entries feature research from Back Picks, ESPN's Stats & Info, and a new edition of JQAS.
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28th April 2011
Matt Scribbins has an interesting piece today at Hoopdata, regarding the trade histories of some really important players in these playoffs. Many trades involving the picks that eventually became superstars took place years before the player even set foot on NBA hardwood.
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27th April 2011
The results are in for the 2011 Internet Basketball Awards - you can read Kevin Pelton's summary of the voting here.
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27th April 2011
Sorry about the lack of posts recently; I've been busy working on the new Stathead Blog. Don't worry, though -- I will have playoff previews and other posts forthcoming, once we find out the matchups for Round 2. And in the meantime, here's a funny video parodying those incessant Clyde Frazier-Keith Hernandez (and now, inexplicably, Randy Johnson) Just For Men commercials. (Note: PG-13 for language.)
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22nd April 2011
A roundup of this week's links:
April 22, 2011
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21st April 2011
College Crunch has its picks for the 10 Best Opening-Round Series in NBA Playoff History.
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19th April 2011
In case you haven't already seen it, NBA.com just launched a sweet stat tool called StatsCube:
StatsCube - Advanced basketball statistics for NBA players and teams on NBA.com
John Schuhmann had been using it in his columns for a while, but now the public can sift through the data for themselves.
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18th April 2011
On April 29, 2011, Google Video is shutting down. While hockey fans will lament the loss of these full-length games (some of which are also available on Hulu), this doesn't mean a lot to the NBA fan -- after all, games like this can also be found on YouTube, and who really wants to see grainy footage of a 2005 Celtics-Sixers game?
However, Google Videos also housed a number of old Charlie Rose interviews with basketball players and writers (Rose, from North Carolina, is a big fan of the game). Here are some that you should watch while you still can:
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