Everything you know about basketball is wrong

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    thegalen Hall of Famer

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    Well maybe not everything :D

    Just came across this incredible blackhole of time-wasting links re: advances in sports analytics as they apply to basketball. Almost all of the work here is NBA-centric, but many of the general ideas and principles being forwarded hold true at a fundamental level and are relevant to college ball.

    http://www.metafilter.com/114881/Everything-we-know-about-basketball-is-a-lot

    Also, shout out to The Classical, a fantastic crowd-funded sports writing website that offers interesting, highbrow commentary on all things sports. This is a great exposition on Alagappan's winning presentation at the 2012 MIT Sloan conference on analytics: http://theclassical.org/articles/about-that-map-of-positions
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    ram4life Hall of Famer

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    Some writer has a lot of time on his hands, I think!

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