The Price of Anarchy

The Price of Anarchy is a suboptimal arrangement used in “traffic networks” that can be applied to Basketball as well. ESPN.com sportswriter Bill Simmons calls it the “Ewing Theory”. The idea that a team could improve after losing one of its best players may in fact have a network-based justification, and not just a psychological one. Optimizing the performance of …

Trade-off Between Usage and Efficiency

Trade-off between usage and efficiency is the mathematical relationship between usage rate and efficiency. Trade-off between usage and efficiency explains the player’s gain of offensive rating (points per 100 possessions) for the drop of each percent of usage.

Winwal

Winwal, one of the first of its kind analytics software program, measures team chemistry and analyzes a player’s impact on his team’s ability to produce points. WINVAL is the labor of Jeff Sagarin and Wayne Winston, who are both graduates of MIT. Winwal’s most unique characteristic is that it measures individual and team performance after every lineup change in every game. Winwal’s …