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Re: Celtics just lucky?
Put me in the camp that thinks the article stupid as
well. This is exactly why I hate statistics and don't
even bother to read them most of the time. It would
be more rewarding to think of a few statistics that
actually tell you something than ones that don't.
They're a holdover from the bad old days before the
internet and league pass, when there was nothing
better to do than parse box scores every day. Chinese
algebra like this demonstates just how silly
stat-crunching is.
Josh
--- Donald Liles <dliles@hr.osu.edu> wrote:
> Is it just me or this guy trying to be a basketball
> Bill James?
>
> I haven't quite figured the whole Win Shares thing
> of James' either.
>
>
> Date sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:04:39 -0500
> (EST)
> From: DJB <dajubo@earthlink.net>
> To: celtics@igtc.com
> Subject: Re: Celtics just lucky?
>
> What a stupid article.
>
> -David
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: "Berry, Mark S" <berrym@BATTELLE.ORG>
> Sent: 03/25/03 01:14 PM
> To: "'celtics@igtc.com'" <celtics@igtc.com>
> Subject: Celtics just lucky?
>
> >
> > That's the conclusion of this SI writer/stat guy:
>
> <a target=_blank
>
href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/statitudes/news/2003/03/24/statitudes_0324/";>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/statitudes/news/2003/03/24/statitudes_0324/</a>
>
<http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/statitudes/news/2003/03/24/statitudes_0324
> />
>
> The thing that isn't really taken into account is
> the historic
> losses---the
> 40- and 50-point losses--- the Celts have suffered
> this season. They skew
> the point differential a little. Still, I think you
> can make a pretty good
> case that this team has been both a) a little lucky
> in terms schedule and
> opponents' injury and b) good, usually, at winning
> close games.
>
> But I also think with some coaching changes, the
> team could exceed its
> current level of play.
>
> Anyway, makes for interesting reading.
>
> Mark
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