Tom Liston
Certainly its the time of year to lay blame for what's been a tough season. But where does the blame lie? The easiest/laziest method is to simply blame the coach. They are the conductors and, if the performance is poor, they should ultimately get the blame. Or should they?
What does Reggie Evans mean to the Toronto Raptors, and a quick take on James Johnson, who's been a nice "surprise" for the Raptors.
The challenge is Leandro Barbosa is not a good shooter this season. He's an excellent break-'em-down-and-get-to-the-hoop player, but not a good shooter.
The myth of the hot hand While this study was presented at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference two years ago, I reviewed it again during this year’s conference and thought it was worth reviewing here. Sandy Weill (who presented the “Optical Tracking” session that I reviewed yesterday), along with John Huizinga (University of Chicago Professor…
Dorkapalooza Edition We had the opportunity to attend M.I.T.’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this year. The conference offered sessions for a wide range of sports, but we focused our attention on the basketball-related sessions. After 11 sessions over 10 hours (1 1/2 days), we attempted to summarize the highlights below. We have sectioned this post…
Salaries are not PERfect Edition: Trade options We’re not likely to be active at the trade deadline (ending this Thursday), but I developed a database that compared salary, number of years under contract and Player Efficiency Rating (PER) to see what assets the Raptors’ have versus what the team could acquire. This article shows us…
What happens when you boo a former Raptor All-star? Let's look at the numbers.
There is a lot of negatively around these parts and its not difficult to understand why. We barely had a 30 win team at the start of the season and plenty of injuries have made the situation even worse.. A couple topics are top of mind.
A quick statistical recap of the first 41 games and some comparison to last year's squad.
The validity of plus/minus has been debated frequently here at Raptors Republic with several misconceptions around both “basic/raw” and “adjusted” measures. The NBA posts raw +/- scores here. A few days ago, it was noted the DeMar DeRozan had the worst plus/minus in the league – what does this mean?. And how is it that…