01-15-2022, 06:19 PM
(01-15-2022, 04:12 PM)BackToSquareOne Wrote: The Garden of Forking Paths.
If you torture the numbers enough I'm sure you can find a way to make them 'support' your eye test.
Or turn that around: You could only look at the final number (a single +/-) impacted by myriad of variables, and chose the one you like to see? It tells that WCS is better player than Luka! That alone is evidence of the extreme noise in this statistic. +/- single number needs to be understood, split in further numbers, situations of games, in order to understand it properly.
If basketball was so simple to only look at one number, to tell you all, basketball would be super simple game. We should just sign the best +/- and we would win a championship. Unfortunately, it does not work that way. No, instead basketball is super complicated, impacted by myriad of factors and variables, and it is not possible to boil it down to a single variable number.