Making Hoops Player Comparisons the Stats Way

The new website Basketball-Prospectus.com is a stats guy’s dream-come-true. If you are interested in learning more about the college or pro basketball world through the exhaustive analysis of statistics and raw data, then you should probably stop spending your time with the big guns in the sports news world, like ESPN, CBS, Fox or your local newspaper’s sports column guy. If you want to sound like a hoops genius, then you had better look at the way the guys at BP do their thing. For instance, if you look at an article by Ken Pomeroy, you might be pleasantly awarded with some really interesting perspectives on how to compare players to other players at the college ranks.

You have all made comparisons of current college hoops stars to former hoops players or other current NBA players. People compared Adam Morrison to Larry Bird, and Glen Davis to Shaq. But how much did those players actually play like each other, and how much were their appearances the most similar thing about them? To find out the answer scientifically, Pomeroy developed a clever mathematical formula, but you will have to read the whole thing to find out his methods.

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Posted in General on October 26, 2007

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