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Advanced metrics and NBA stats have done great things for the game, but the most important development would be the ability to quantify a player’s defense! Imagine that there is an opportunity to quantify the in-depth defensive abilities of NBA players just like we can measure offensive abilities. This would be an excellent improvement for the NBA community and the …

This blog post is not written much from an advanced stats viewpoint. I just wanted to share my thoughts, observations, and predictions for the rest of the Playoffs 2011. Let’s list the weakest links team-by-team first. EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago: Keith Bogans has been playing 38.5% of minutes. In contrary to Tom Thibodeau, I don’t think he even is an average …

We know you have been using our NBA rest days stats to make better decisions. Let’s take a deeper look at it! Is there any statistical edge to get over the sportsbooks? When NBA betting, closing the NBA number by a point can be beaten and it is possible to add an extra 4% to the winning percentage. Taking an …

You can always follow current season’s NBA rest days stats including back-to-back game stats at NBAstuffer. After the win over OKC, Portland improved to 14-3 W-L (.823) in second game of back to back sets. This is by far better than any team in the NBA. They have played with a plus 4.3 efficiency differential, which is already adjusted to …

Click to go to 2010-2011 Season NBA Player Movements Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. Click player’s name to learn more about the transaction. {tab= PLAYERS ADDED} Type Date New Team Former Team Position Player 2009-2010 Salary Extend 04/20/2010 Por Por C Marcus Camby 8,850,000 Extend 04/08/2010 San San SG Manu Ginobili …

DOWNLOAD 2009-2010 NBA SCHEDULE and TEAM SCHEDULES IN EXCEL People can’t wait for 2009-2010 schedule! As always, NBAstuffer will be offering the schedules in excel files once it has been released. The whole league schedule will be available for download as well as 30 individual team schedules. THE RELEASE DATE? The schedule guy, Matt Winick only knows the exact date …

With the regular season has come to an end, the Nets has been the most inconsistent team so far. To get a better understanding, just take a look at their game-by-game efficiency differential changes. As you can see, being inconsistent is a consistent thing for the Nets. Way too many zig-zags. For those of you who are curious about how …

Here’s what happened -correction: what did not happen- in this boring offseason so far. I wanted you to pay attention to all of the infected sides while we are waiting for the huge Wednesday. The NBA lockout has reached a point at which it has begun to negatively impact everyone from fans to players and everyone in between. This is …

I’m pleased to inform that team stats table now has strength of schedule (SOS) and schedule adjusted ratings (SAR). These two key metrics are broken down to splits such as last 5 games, playing on the road and at home. Interested in Miami Heat’s strength of schedule for just home games? It’s a matter of Heat’s opponents’ average efficiency differential …

Take a look at the NBA 2009-2010 Regular Season Schedule Heat Map Last updated through games completed on April 14, 2010. Click column headers to sort. Reverse sort order by clicking twice. Mouse over column headers for explanations. {tab=ROAD TRIP TRACKER} Team 3-Game Road Trips 4-Game Road Trips 5-Game Road Trips 6-Game Road Trips 7-Game Road Trips 8-Game Road Trips …

The model is 681-269 (.717) in predicting winner teams since Dec, 1, 2008. Distribution of score predictions by grades is as follows: {tab=ROAD TEAMS}

    Please also see the previous related article.   {tab=TOP TEN WELCOME MATS}     PG SG SF PF C 1 Golden State Toronto Golden State LA Clippers Sacramento 2 Denver Minnesota Charlotte Atlanta Phoenix 3 Phoenix Memphis Washington Denver Seattle 4 Milwaukee Golden State New York Golden State Charlotte 5 Chicago Seattle Seattle Phoenix Golden State 6 Orlando …

What you will get in this article is kind of simple and easily comparable stuff. Don’t expect me to make judgments about how smart the player movements were. This study should be considered as a comparison tool which helps us have some insight whether the trades, on the paper, seem to help out teams or not! It was just a …

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) …

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 …

In terms of probability, the Lakers have more chances than the Celtics have. I’m sorry for those of you who are rooting for C’s but, just have a look at history! The Boston Celtics are 2007-2008 regular season champs with a 66-16 W/L record while Lakers had the third-best record in the league. Could regular season champs win the title …

Please refer to the related article which has been published before. Continue here to get the regular season afternoon games vs. night games statistical comparison. Accepted as a afternoon game Game time 12:00 12:30 01:00 02:00 02:30 03:30 TOTAL Number of games 4 4 20 6 7 19 60 Accepted as a night game Game time 04:00 05:00 05:30 06:00 …

Dear Willie, I wish you the very best. We greatly appreciate what you did for Fenerbahce in the last 2 years. You’ve deserved making it to be an NBA legend and the Raptors seems to be the right team. Either playing at the point or at the two, I strongly believe that you will get enough playing time to prove …

  What makes me write this article is the New York Team. With being the second worst defensive team of NBA how did the Knicks manage Pistons hold to 65 points. It was their most lopsided victory of the season. Contrarily, scoring 65 points against any team is worth to think about the reason(s). Here is a breakdown of most likely reasons which will help …

RANK PLAYER     PER 1 C.Paul – Nor     37.426 2 D.Nowitzki – Dal     32.572 3 K.Bryant – Lal     30.771 4 L.James – Cle     30.278 5 T.McGrady – Hou     30.212 6 K.Garnett – Bos     28.478 7 J.Smith – Den     28.185 8 C.Bosh – Tor     …

I’ve added one more feature to the 2008-2009 regular season’s stat table. What team do you think have overachieved most so far? If you would like to learn, just head to the stat page and sort “Ach.” column! Well, Detroit should have won fewer games than their level of effort on the court indicates. In other words, the Pistons have …

As we have 1230 NBA regular season games, do you think the games are being scheduled fairly? On the paper, it seems that some teams have easier schedules than the others; but with home stands and road trips all teams have to play 82 games in a 5.5. month time. To sum up research results, all I can speak that …

  NBAstuffer.com has executed the quantitative analysis, Jake Kerr of Mavsmoneyball.com wrote the story.  Read how Jason Kidd has changed Dallas Mavericks' statistical facts.   Earlier, the  "Trades Work Out?" article has J-Kidd's individual statistical changes since he has been traded to Dallas. Here is briefly what changed in Dallas after the trade:   EFFICIENCY PACE OFFENSE DEFENSE √ × √   He runs the show with a faster …

Last year I wrote an article about position-by-position strenghts and weaknesses of NBA Teams. By popular demand, the study will be one of the regularly updated sections at NBAstuffer.com! From weakest to strongest, here is the position-by-position stats* of the NBA teams that treated opponents either as rolling out a "welcome mat" or as "defending the castle". Can you guess …

  Have you wondered how many matinee games or afternoon games are scheduled? I have noticed that I got bored anytime I watch those games. In this article while you may find the impact of matinee games on pace, offensive and defensive efficiencies; it would be more interesting to learn insights of NBA players who are being forced to play afternoon games at the times they are not get used to be …

Click to go to 2010-2011 Season NBA Player Movements Click to go to 2009-2010 Season NBA Player Movements Click underlined column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. Click player’s name to learn more about the transaction. Type Date New Team Former Team Position Player 2008-09 Salary Free Agent 4/13/2009 Tor Sac SG Quincy Douby 1,427,040 …

Here’s a nice visualization of NBA teams’ road trips and home stands in NBA 2009-2010 regular season. It clarifies the teams’ schedule sufferings due to the special events at its arenas. Making room for the Grammys for LA teams, Circus for Chicago Bulls (Circus Trip), “Stock Show & Rodeo” for the Spurs (Rodeo Trip) are amongst well known events which …

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

I have decided to make a S.W. analysis for NBA teams. Wondering what S.W. is? It is half of a S.W.O.T. analysis. In this article I will only mention, position by position, S (Strengths) and W (Weakness) of NBA teams. I don’t think any of you did not notice why the Suns allow opposing power forwards and centers have a …

The legendary Alabama coach Paul Bryant once said: “Defense wins championships“. We wanted to see if this is true for basketball as well. In the context of professional basketball, we have another saying in the NBA, “Good defense create good offense”, which also would lead a team to victory. That being said, let’s analyze the theory that suggests defense wins …