Freakonomics.com often posts questions and answers with authors and today it is our turn. So if you have a question, please post it at Freakonomics.com. In a few days our answers will be posted.
In other news…
Once again I am taking part in the True Hoop Stat Geek Smackdown. I am the defending champion in this contest. But like the Lakers, I am not sure my reign is going to last very long. Many teams are not separated by much. And with all the injuries to key players, this is going to be a difficult post-season to predict.
Our third contest here — for an autographed copy of Stumbling on Wins — has also been completed. I still need to look at the numbers to see who – if anyone – actually won. We will be having another contest soon. I will try and get that posted soon.
– DJ
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brgulker
April 15, 2010
I’m going to add mine here as well:
If there were one player action that you would want to be tracked and added to the NBA’s box score, what would it be?
Michael
April 15, 2010
Good question. I’d vote for deflections.
brgulker
April 15, 2010
“Hockey assists” may be interesting as well. I wonder I hose would help quantify the value o floor spacing.
Rockets
April 15, 2010
Three random questions.
(1) Why don’t players get an assist when they dish it to a guy, he gets fouled, and hits two free throws?
(2) Why don’t charges count as steals (I believe I mentioned this earlier, but didn’t follow up)?
(3) Is there any evidence that teams that take a lot of threes are better offensive rebounders? (My hypothesis is that this should be true, since threes are much more likely to result in long rebounds and long rebounds seem to generate more offense rebounds than short rebounds.)