12-12-2019, 02:43 PM
(12-12-2019, 02:24 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: What are people relying on them for?
I would be very surprised if any front office/coaching staff in the NBA pays any attention at all to any of these stats. I don't know that for sure, of course.
I would say that the stats are pretty reliable entertainers however, which is why ESPN keeps putting them out there. A number of fans seem to enjoy parsing them, and a few may even take them seriously. But I don't know if the stats are being relied on for anything of consequence. Fantasy basketball, maybe?
I have no objection to people discussing them or anything, if they find it amusing. Just think that as far as using them to reach some meaningful analytical result, it's pretty much a case of GIGO.
Are you talking about just what ESPN puts out? Are you talking about anything that makes it into the public that's not directly from a team's analytics department?