01-01-2022, 02:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2022, 02:17 PM by BackToSquareOne.)
(01-01-2022, 01:55 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: Believe me, every time I venture into this breach, I ask myself why, lol. This time, I was fresh off reading Seth's book, and thought maybe sharing a few of his insights would elicit some interesting discussion.
I haven't read the book, but I have now read some Q&As with him. In general terms (and not focusing on +/- (which I'm not that keen on, at least on an individual level), he comes across as trying to face both ways - as trying to take care to discuss the limitations of what basketball stats can tell one whilst advocating for use of certain of them in some, and being conciliatory with sceptics. Maybe the book takes a more robust line, but my overall impression is that probably most readers could come away thinking their prior has been confirmed by what they read - statsy people thinking 'yeah, stats are good, but need to be done carefully' and non-statsy people thinking 'yeah, there's no point in any of that really - there's so many unaccounted things behind each number' (what the statsy people might call 'noise').