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The Subtle Value Of Great Point Guards: Why Potential Assists Matter
Minnesota Lynx point guard Lindsay Whalen running Chin Iso, as described/diagrammed by Fast Model Sports. Whenever people try to suggest that point guard play doesn't matter that much, I immediately think of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team's beat down of the LSU Tigers in...
2011 WNBA Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus: Who Were The Top Offensive & Defensive Performers?
Yesterday I took a look at plus/minus ratings with a focus on four-year Regularized Adjusted Plus Minus as a metric that measures player impact (click here to revisit that). Today, I continue looking at RAPM, but narrow the scope to a one-year perspective to get a sense of how RAPM matches...
Plus-Minus: A Primer & The Value Of Four-Year WNBA Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus (RAPM)
Just yesterday in a comment on the 2011 WNBA All-Playoff Team post, Shannon correctly pointed out that I had sort of loosely tossed out the term "plus/minus" without sufficient explanation. The confusion, as I described briefly there, was that there are two forms of plus/minus currently publicly...
2011 WNBA "All-Playoff" Team: Which Players Did The Most For Their Teams In The Post-Season?
As I was digging through some of our old college coverage in preparation for the upcoming NCAA season I wondered, Why not have a WNBA "All-Tournament team" for the playoffs? The moment passed as the playoffs are sort of a weird beast given that people played anywhere between 2 and 8 games, but the...
2011 WNBA Playoff Series Preview: #2 Connecticut Sun vs. #3 Atlanta Dream - Eastern Conference, First Round
Who: #2 Connecticut Sun vs. #3 Atlanta Dream What: WNBA playoffs, Eastern Conference, first round When: First game - Friday, September 16 at 7 p.m. EDT (NBA TV/WNBA LiveAccess) in Connecticut (full schedule) Season series: 2-2 split (click here for summary) Preview: Peachtree Hoops Atlanta Dream...
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