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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Comparing the NBA's 50 Greatsest. With fancy schmancy statistics.

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Also, another take from the same outfit comarping only last year's seasons to some greats.

I'm sorry to only single this little blurp out but how the fuck is Ginobili similar to Jordan. I like Manu's game and all, but c'mon, Jordan?

They're both 6-6? Honestly, I don't know how much the 'stats' of age, height, and weight are considered in these studies. But when you add more variables, you get weaker correlations with all variables. I prefer 'similarity' lists that are generated only by production statistics. But maybe that's just me. The 2 studies linked above both compare last year's players to alltime greats. The first one references the alltimers' Peak Year, while the 2nd compares to Career rates.

Study #2 comarps Rodman and Iguodala.?

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