{"id":1644,"date":"2009-02-27T04:59:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2009-02-27T04:59:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:59:05","slug":"making-sense-of-some-mind-boggling-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1644","title":{"rendered":"Making Sense of Some Mind-Boggling Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/blog\/?p=1423\">Stray Thoughts on 1962<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Questions about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1516\">connection<\/a> between gaudy stats and helping your team to win aside, a look at a comparison between the insane stats posted in 1962 and what&#8217;s going on today, in terms of the pacing of the game, then vs now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Okay, so you\u2019ve all seen Wilt and Oscar\u2019s numbers from 1962\u2026 but have you ever sat down and looked at the league averages that year? In \u201862, the average team took 107.7 <em>shots<\/em> per game. By comparison, this year the average team takes 80.2 FGA\/G. If we use a regression to estimate turnovers &amp; offensive rebounds, the league pace factor for 1962 was 125.5 possessions\/48 minutes, whereas this year it\u2019s 91.7. Oscar\u2019s Royals averaged 124.7 poss\/48, while Wilt\u2019s Warriors put up a staggering 129.7 (the highest mark in the league). On the other hand, the 2009 Cavs are averaging a mere 89.2 poss\/48. It turns out that the simplest explanation for the crazy statistical feats of 1961-62 (and the early sixties in general) is just that the league was playing at a <em>much<\/em> faster tempo in those days, with more possessions affording players more opportunities to amass gaudy counting statistics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/02\/lebron-averaging-a-triple-double\">via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stray Thoughts on 1962 Questions about the connection between gaudy stats and helping your team to win aside, a look at a comparison between the insane stats posted in 1962 and what&#8217;s going on today, in terms of the pacing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}