NBAstuffer.com has gained a very new look. It should provide better navigation and more user-friendly page designs. What do you think? Write your comments below or cast your vote about it.

I'm excited to announce the very new stuff called "Analytics 101" on NBAstuffer.com.

The idea is simple: Help people get the whole basketball analytics in one source. I've tried to make it easy for everyone to understand terms and formulas. Entries don't go that deep and often paraphrased from the original authors and wikipedia

I couldn't decide on allowing people submit new terms because of formatting issues. Currently the analytics glossary has 35-40 terms under 3 main categories but I hope it gets larger in a short time.

I'm open to receive your thoughts about the project.

Isn't it an interesting stat that when Eddie F.Rush officiates a NBA playoff game, home teams win the game with a .900 probability? The only game where road team has beat the home team is on 20th April, Philly beat Detroit. (90-86)

Since then, the home teams are 9-0 when Eddie Rush is the head referee. He also leads the referees in calling fouls against the road teams (54.1% of his fouls were called against road teams so far). These stats can be found under the "Fouls Per Game" tab on the "Referee Stats" section.

In this offseason, I see a very hard work and there's a lot of things to get done. Let me know what you guys would love to kind of get next season.

Here is a short list of what you can expect new:

Website:

• A completely new layout
• A free membership program (Downloads, special newsletters will be available only for members)

Content

• Sortable player movements in the offseason
• Statistical terms and analysts glossary called "Analytics 101"
• All stats available with sortable column headers, try it now!
• A downloadable NBA regular season schedule in excel spreadsheet w/ rest days
• 2008-2009 regular season W/L predictions
• Strenght of the schedule analysis
• Last game W/L records of long road trips
• Sortable team rankings by AST/FGM ratio (Best passing teams)
• Sortable player defensive and offensive ratings

Would you mind if I ask you to participate in a basketball research?

Please refer to the "People's Statistics" page and take the survey!

Thanks in advance for your interest and contribution...

Check out the new "Insight" section where you can find links from the quality sources around the web. I'm open to have new additions here, so let me know which sites you would like to see added.

Let's see what we'll get after the postseason. Here I go with my series and championship predictions:

Referee statistics are the ultimate material available in NBAstuffer.com. You can find the fouls, technicals called and ejection averages of refereees. Please note that two assistant officials in each game are being ignored in this one.