Yeah, he’s still in a broom closet dissembling over the career of Demar DeRozan into his iPhone, at 2% charge
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i think i defaulted to hockey brain, where +/- is an old-timey stat whose pointlessness serious analytics guys have been ranting about for over a decade, and just assumed the same was true of the nba hahaha
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The NBA +/- works a little better because starters don’t play basically the whole game.
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They also tend to discuss the relative offensive and defensive efficiencies of various lineup permutations, not raw plus minus
“The Warriors have a 117 offensive efficiency when Steph Curry plays” etc
Which is +/- ish but more nuanced
Same thing, and also misused just as often because then people compare those stats to a full team’s stats. But that’s neither here nor there.
Actually some good stuff in this pod about stuff we’ve talked about on the board a lot… close games, plus/minus, small sample size, OSU losing but not dropping as far as people want, etc.
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They asked the football coaches this too. Harbaugh said “everything but points.” IIRC
Nothing quite on par with that here but some fun responses
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And Kirk Ferentz said offensive yardage lol
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It would be beneficial for CBB if Wisconsin does not make the tournament
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Sean McNeil playing like a madman
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Apparently!
Ref did not get suckered in by Hepburn and called that block. If only every conference ref had that same conviction when doing a Wisconsin game
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Underwood had a decent answer. Points, specially ppg, is an overrated stat that people use to evaluate players and teams in general.
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Not much panic there, not much pulse.
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Yeah, a team is going to score 55 at least, someone has to score them
(This is the argument I was considering deploying against your “Cade is scoring 21!” Argument 
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If we aren’t gonna be in the tournament, then neither should Wisconsin
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Yep – he’s absolutely right from an individual perspective. PPG is basically something I never look at for scouting a player or previewing a player.
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Lol I never said I’m not guilty of using it
GOOOOO! Suckeyes! GOOOOOOOOOO!
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OSU to the semis?
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