Fuck Yea[h] NBA
I don’t have a subscription to Synergy, and I only occasionally look at the breakdowns on HoopData, but I know who Bill James is. He’s the godfather of sabermetric analysis and a wet dream for half the basketball bloggers you read every day.  One James disciple, FedEx Delivery driver Ed Weiland, figured out how valuable Jeremy Lin was before he went undrafted out of Harvard in 2010. About James and Weiland, the New York Times’ Benjamin Hoffman had this to say, His ascension made clear that the statistics of various sports were out there for anyone to analyze and dissect. It is not necessary to sit in the press box every day or have a notebook full of anecdotes from the clubhouse. Numbers, often enough, speak for themselves. The question is who is listening. In the case of Jeremy Lin, one of those paying attention was a FedEx delivery truck driver in Bend, Ore., named Ed Weiland, who moonlights as a contributor to HoopsAnalyst.com. Before the 2010 N.B.A. draft, Weiland examined Lin’s body of work as a college player at Harvard and concluded that he might be among the best point guards available. At the time, Weiland was essentially ignored. Now he looks like a prophet. Unreal. The next time you harp on someone for looking at the cold, hard facts regarding a player’s stats, maybe listen. I know I will, and most NBA GM’s are adapting to a post-Lin NBA world. One where the stat geeks like Houston GM Daryl Morey (he released Lin!) are the one’s breaking ground on the way to evaluate players. [New York Times; Photo by Debby Wong, US Presswire Via Orlando Sentinel]

I don’t have a subscription to Synergy, and I only occasionally look at the breakdowns on HoopData, but I know who Bill James is. He’s the godfather of sabermetric analysis and a wet dream for half the basketball bloggers you read every day. 

One James disciple, FedEx Delivery driver Ed Weiland, figured out how valuable Jeremy Lin was before he went undrafted out of Harvard in 2010. About James and Weiland, the New York Times’ Benjamin Hoffman had this to say,

His ascension made clear that the statistics of various sports were out there for anyone to analyze and dissect. It is not necessary to sit in the press box every day or have a notebook full of anecdotes from the clubhouse. Numbers, often enough, speak for themselves. The question is who is listening.

In the case of Jeremy Lin, one of those paying attention was a FedEx delivery truck driver in Bend, Ore., named Ed Weiland, who moonlights as a contributor to HoopsAnalyst.com. Before the 2010 N.B.A. draft, Weiland examined Lin’s body of work as a college player at Harvard and concluded that he might be among the best point guards available.

At the time, Weiland was essentially ignored. Now he looks like a prophet.

Unreal. The next time you harp on someone for looking at the cold, hard facts regarding a player’s stats, maybe listen. I know I will, and most NBA GM’s are adapting to a post-Lin NBA world. One where the stat geeks like Houston GM Daryl Morey (he released Lin!) are the one’s breaking ground on the way to evaluate players.

[New York Times; Photo by Debby Wong, US Presswire Via Orlando Sentinel]

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