Dec 29 2009
College Basketball: Rating Individual 3FG%
My last post presented a model for predicting 3FG% based on a player’s ability, age, and role in the offense. A comment by DSMok1 inspired the model I will present in this post. He writes: I was considering how best to create an “equalized” measure of 3pt and 2pt % for college players, based on […]
Mar 18 2009
NCAA Teams Do Better When Down at Halftime?
I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve got a long way to go with my education on building and interpreting statistical models, so I find this post by Andrew Gelman very useful. The post is in response to this article by Jonah Berger and Devin Pope (see discussion here). Here is a quote from […]