Marketing, Stats and Basketball

This is a blog about scientific research in basketball , and it is mainly focused on marketing and statistics. The aim of this blog is to disseminate findings from studies conducted by our research group, share ideas, and discuss. You can write either in English or Spanish (but we recommend English in order to make your comments more accessible to international colleagues). We will be happy to count with your opinion regarding the topics we discuss. Welcome to Basket-Research.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Magic Metric Playing Cards

Some good news again about Magic Metric. In the following link, you will find an interesting coparison between the rating system created by Dick Mays and other well-known indexes such as PER or Efficiency.

http://www.upct.es/~beside/Textos/MAGICMETRIC_PlayingCards.pdf

Beyond the interpretation of which system is the best based on the rankings created, you should consider the theoretical foundations of them. Remember that the Magic Metric rating system is grounded on a system of equations that yield the values of the linear weights employed. PER and Efficiency are much more subjective indexes.