12-12-2019, 01:41 PM
(12-12-2019, 01:20 PM)fifteenth Wrote: Context is required to make sense of this stuff, and sometimes we mention that, but when all is said and done we use each metric as a linear player ranking system.I agree. I think the main reason the statement is made of "small sample size" is because of this as well. At the end of the season, when every team has played every team roughly the same amount, or at least as much as they can, you are then able to say "this guy defended the best player 2-4 in every matchup" and then find those guys like that around the league that did the same and you get a bit of the truth to it all. I say a bit, because injuries and playing against LeBron/Kawhi/George happens 2, 3 and 4 times for some teams. All of those things skew the numbers.