04-03-2021, 01:05 PM
(04-03-2021, 10:11 AM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: Suns have awful net ratings with Booker and Paul are on the floor? That's what I read. But the ratings increase when one of them is off the floor? Sometimes all these analytics mislead and confulute reality. The eye test works for me.
1) Booker and Paul are 3rd and 4th on the Suns in net on/off and 1st and 2nd for the heavy lifters on the Suns. They are exactly where you would expect them to fall.
2) On/off analytics do NOT mislead when they are large sample sizes and when someone who has half a brain for context looks at them.
3) On/off analytics are nothing more than the most basic analytic of basketball: the team who outscores the other team wins. Therefore on/off analytics are in some ways the only TRULY meaningful stats in basketball because at the end of the day outscoring the opponent is the ONLY way to win in the one stat that matters. And on/off analytics are the only window into that reality.
4) None of that means we don't need to be careful when looking at on/off stats, because we do need to be careful. But people who dismiss them are ultimately dismissing the basic premise of basketball which is to outscore your opponent.