Basketball Prospectus … end of life?

Apparently, Kevin Pelton, Bradford Doolittle, and John Gasaway have left basketball Prospectus and are now writing for ESPN insider.

That’s a shame … I liked them in my geeky, sporty corner of the internet that basketball prospectus had been for me. But I guess I’ll have to change the sweet, late-nineties styled Basketball Prospectus with it’s iconic yellow banner (“Click Here to Subscribe Today!”) for the horrible, flashy ESPN Insider with “Exclusive Rumors”.

Which statistics to look at early in the season

With the DBL season just underway at about six games per team, what are the statistics that can already reliable tell us something? In his article “Calling the Race” [1], Kevin Pelton of basketballprospectus.com takes a look at the NBA season 2010-11 and examines from what point in the season statistics align with the eventual outcome at the end of the season. What can we learn from Kevin’s article?

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