ESPN: Enough Already With Win Probabilities
By Jim Weber, Lost Lettermen, March 16, 2014
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Watching ESPN’s college basketball coverage this season has made me feel like I’m back in high school algebra class with all its mind-numbing probabilities of victory.
Look, I get it. We’re in the Golden Age of statistics in sports. It was started by baseball’s Sabermetrics and now intense statistical analysis has spread to football and basketball as well. And with the recent hiring of Nate Silver of The New York Times, ESPN is going to focus even more on analytics. I certainly don’t consider myself a stat head but I do enjoy some advanced metrics like John Hollinger’s Player Efficiency Rating that gives you one number to evaluate all basketball players across statistics and positions.
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