We are down to 4 teams in the playoffs, which means 26 teams and their fan bases are anxiously looking forward to the draft. As most know, I’m a huge Oklahoma City Thunder fan. As I look at the many possible places for improvement, one that immediately pops out is our perimeter shooting. The Thunder… Continue reading Forecasting Ideal 3-and-D Players: Part One
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Outperforming Contracts: An Oklahoma City Thunder Case Study (Part 2)
Fellow Baseline Jammers, you were very missed! The previous post examined how much an organization expends to generate a single win share from a specified individual player. However, this data is slightly meaningless without a benchmark to compare to. In this post, we will compare each player of the Thunder’s starting lineup with other starting… Continue reading Outperforming Contracts: An Oklahoma City Thunder Case Study (Part 2)
Outperforming Contracts: An Oklahoma City Thunder Case Study (Part 1)
The Oklahoma City Thunder’s front office is annually appraised as one of the better front offices in the NBA. One way to measure a front office's success is to examine players' contracts and correlate those to players' contributions to the team's success. In this post, we will examine if each Thunder player outperformed his contract for the 2017-2018 season by… Continue reading Outperforming Contracts: An Oklahoma City Thunder Case Study (Part 1)
The Baseline Jam–An Introduction
The backdoor cut--perhaps the most beautiful maneuver in the game of basketball. Defenders are often caught off-guard on a backdoor cut; analogously, the purpose of this blog is to use data analytics to share interesting and not quite visible observations about the NBA. About the blogger: current MBA student who is looking to create a… Continue reading The Baseline Jam–An Introduction
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