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DePaul 71, Seton Hall 59: Analysis and Doug Bruno discussing Tempo-Free Statistics
South Orange, NJ- In a game much closer than the final score indicates, DePaul defeated Seton Hall 71-59 at Walsh Gymnasium on Saturday. DePaul improved to 4-4 in conference as the winless Hall dropped to 0-8. Resilience was the key word in this one. "I am proud of our team," DePaul coach Doug...
Artest Is Fitting in Quite Well, and Other Good News
Last October, as part of our preview series, I published a piece here titled Stat Trends to Watch in the New Season. In it I broke down five statistical issues I thought would be especially telling as the Lakers' title defense got underway. The season has reached and passed the quarter pole, and...
The Debut of Laker Stats Orgy!
Last season during the playoffs, I ran a regular column here at SS&R titled Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown. In it I used a toolkit of unorthodox statistical measures to take apart the Lakers performance game by game. The idea was that by looking at game stats in a different light - in particular, by...
Kobe Enjoys Shanking the Rockets
There was never any hope that last night's game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets was going to be pretty. For the Lakers it was part two of a back-to-back on the road. Their best player was ill and had played 46 minutes the night before. Their second best player had played zero...
Lakers Visit Dust Bowl, Take Part in Athletic Contest of Some Kind
It was basketball, you say? Ehh, that's a bit of a stretch, dude. Whatever it was the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder got up to last night bore little resemblance to the sport of hoops as customarily played by professionals. It was more like cheaply made snuff porn for turnover...
Lakers Finally Snap Nearly Season-Long Losing Streak
All right, guys, I've come up with a great play on words for you. You're gonna love it. You ready? Here goes: The Lakers last night were "Pau-less" but not powerless. Ha ha! I know, right? My jokes rule. I bet there's gonna be a little something extra in my paycheck this week for that one. But...
Stat Trends to Watch in the New Season
What's up, sexy mamas? Those of you who chilled here during the playoffs last season may recall our regular, wittily named Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown feature. The objective of TFBB was to bring you quantitative analysis of the Lakers using next-gen stat methods, although that makes what we did...
Lakers-Magic: A Statistical Series Retrospective
The Lakers' series victory over the Orlando Magic was most striking in its thoroughness. Which is to say - from a stathead point of view, whatever the superiority that the Lakers demonstrated over 455 possessions may have lacked in historic, shock-and-awe magnitude, it more than made up for in...
Lakers-Magic Game 4: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
In Game Four, Derek Fisher had a Robert Horry kind of night. This is a more complicated notion than you might think and, as hoops compliments go, is both enormous and enormously qualified. It invokes a sense of role player yin-and-yang that manifests equally in long stretches of ineffectual play,...
Lakers-Magic Game 3: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
Reversion to the mean is a powerful force. In principle, it holds that over time, the outcomes of uncertain events will reflect their underlying probabilities. Take the most basic example of such an event: a coin flip. If you flip a quarter, say, eight times, it may very well turn up heads six...
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