confirmed: raef signed, russell to dallas, buckner gone

[MavKikiNYC]

I thought this was an interesting piece, Madape. Thanks for re-posting it.

One thing I wish the article had covered would be if/how this system accounts for garbage time. Any ideas?

[MFFL]

<< Cuban, for one, took WINVAL's ratings into account when he adjusted his roster last summer. He acquired Evan Eschmeyer, Tim Hardaway and Danny Manning, all of whom had rated highly the previous season >>



And all three of those players REALLY contributed. They certainly were the spark that put us over the top.

I really think it generates interesting trivia but that's it. The day that Jerry West believes that this is important and signs up will be the day that I change my mind.



<< One thing I wish the article had covered would be if/how this system accounts for garbage time. Any ideas? >>



Impact: 39.02 percent (4)

4. Measures how a player changes his team's chance of winning at any point in the game, removing the impact of garbage time performance. Isn't necessarily consistent with a player's overall point rating. Duncan's rating means that if he played an entire game with four statistically average NBA players against a team of five average NBA players, his team would have an 89.02 percent chance of winning the game (50 percent + 39.02 percent). A player's impact rating will suffer, for example, if he's on the court when his team gives up a 10-0 run in the third quarter.

I'd love to see them explain this - it sound like a fudge factor that makes certain players rank well.