"The great analytics rankings" - Which teams use analytics the most?

[SpursFan86]

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12331388/the-great-analytics-rankings

Ranks sports franchises on the strength of their analytics staff and how much the organization buys into analytics. Barkley said that the Spurs didn't use analytics, and was obviously wrong.

Funny how the better teams tend to believe more in analytics :rolleyes

[angrydude]

The better teams in all sports look for any advantage they can get. They don't dismiss anything out of hand just because durrrrr

[midnightpulp]

No surprise the Lakers are 2nd to last. The franchise is stuck in the stone age.

[Kool Bob Love]

Lakers at the bottom. Stay that way b. :tu

[Malik Hairston]

Not surprising that the majority of the skeptics and non-believing teams are iso-centric in style, tbh..

The Lakers' are still stuck in the antiquated mentality of "it's LA, we'll just sign the best players, rather than doing any actual scouting or evaluating of players"..

[HI-FI]

Who needs math when you got Chazz.

[Tuddy]

You really have to use them in combination with your eyes, particularly RAPM - it's just too hard to evaluate what skillsets each of your teammates possess. Otherwise James Harden, DeMarcus Cousins and Larry Sanders are 3 of the best defenders in the league & Tyson Chandler went from a Top 10 defensive player in Dallas to a Top 50 defensive player in New York back to a Top 10 in Dallas.

[SpursFan86]

You really have to use them in combination with your eyes, particularly RAPM - it's just too hard to evaluate what skillsets each of your teammates possess. Otherwise James Harden, DeMarcus Cousins and Larry Sanders are 3 of the best defenders in the league & Tyson Chandler went from a Top 10 defensive player in Dallas to a Top 50 defensive player in New York back to a Top 10 in Dallas.

Of course...you should never solely rely on statistics to form opinions. But there are plenty of idiots out there who dismiss them completely and think they don't mean anything. Barkley went on a rant about how teams like the Spurs don't use analytics :lol

[Raven]

there is no such thing as a believer or a non believer, either you understand statistics or you don't, that's all that there is.