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| Jeff Sagarin | Jeff Sagarin is an American sports statistician well-known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports. Jeff Sagarin and Wayne Winston pioneered adjusted plus-minus statistics with their WINVAL system, which has been used extensively by the Dallas Mavericks. |
| John Hollinger | John Hollinger authored four books in the Pro Basketball Forecast/Prospectus series and is a regular columnist for ESPN Insider. Hollinger's work is read by many mainstream fans who are not familiar with APBRmetrics in general, making him instrumental in introducing the system to regular NBA fans. |
| Justin Kubatko | Justin Kubatko developed and administers Basketball-Reference.com, a site that provides much relied upon and easy access to regular and many of the advanced basketball statistics, much of the data not available anywhere else on the net for before the most recent seasons. He also adapted an idea from Bill James called Win Shares to basketball to estimate player contribution to a team's level of winning based on individual offensive performance and team defense while the player is on the court. |
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