riverside6
10-19-2007, 11:42 AM
Beware of numbers ahead! Warning: Stats follow!
Did everyone read Ken Pomeroy's article titled Hometown Scoring (http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=14)? Here's the main point from it...
"With biased errors, unlike random errors, there are ways to sort out where the biases exist, and whom those errors benefit. In this case, we can compare how often a team is credited with an assist at home to how often they get an assist away from home. Since scorekeepers are largely the same people at each home game, we can single out which teams have scorekeepers that ration assists like they're gold and those that make even the most selfish players look like Steve Nash."
Pomeroy makes an interesting point, so in my latest article I looked at the same thing for the ACC teams (http://www.scacchoops.com/forms/tt_NewsBreaker_External.asp?NB=917), and also expanded upon Pomeroy's thoughts by looking strictly at home court's.
In general, Duke's assist percentage (Assists/FGs * 100) was higher at home than on the road despite having a scorekeeper that was slightly under the league average.
Dang typos, and I can't change the title! ARGH.
Did everyone read Ken Pomeroy's article titled Hometown Scoring (http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=14)? Here's the main point from it...
"With biased errors, unlike random errors, there are ways to sort out where the biases exist, and whom those errors benefit. In this case, we can compare how often a team is credited with an assist at home to how often they get an assist away from home. Since scorekeepers are largely the same people at each home game, we can single out which teams have scorekeepers that ration assists like they're gold and those that make even the most selfish players look like Steve Nash."
Pomeroy makes an interesting point, so in my latest article I looked at the same thing for the ACC teams (http://www.scacchoops.com/forms/tt_NewsBreaker_External.asp?NB=917), and also expanded upon Pomeroy's thoughts by looking strictly at home court's.
In general, Duke's assist percentage (Assists/FGs * 100) was higher at home than on the road despite having a scorekeeper that was slightly under the league average.
Dang typos, and I can't change the title! ARGH.