Pop was shocked the Spurs won a Sloan analytics award

[ElNono]

nerds

Odds of ing a good looking nerd are 0.003%. Advanced stats show that the average nerd BMI is 22% (+- 1.2%) larger than the average. Things like "she has a nice personality" are antiquated models from a bygone era.

[Robz4000]

Odds of ing a good looking nerd are 0.003%. Advanced stats show that the average nerd BMI is 22% (+- 1.2%) larger than the average. Things like "she has a nice personality" are antiquated models from a bygone era.

same

[exstatic]

Pop is clearly an "eye-test" guy. He's a great strategist, but he's not a guy who's gonna be guided by numbers. Could have sworn he's said as much a few times. He's obviously smart, but not in the sense people consider Morey and Hinkie to be.

I see you've fallen for Pop's "aw shucks/Br'er Rabbit" routine like most of the media. The fact that he finally played Splitter tells you he uses analytics. Splitter can look as bad as Ayres out there, but if you look at the analytics, he's a defensive rock. Pop fought it for over a year, but finally realized that the numbers did tell the tale. I would go so far as to say that Pop uses analytics without necessarily understanding them, a sort of faith.

[MI21]

You're pretty much agreeing with him. The award has little to do with analytics usage and more to do with general success. The Spurs are actually mediocre in their emphasis on analytics. But because they were the best team that used it at all, they won the award.

According to this, you are quite off base.

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/stor...ytics-rankings

Spurs are recognised as being Top 5 in amount of analytics used.

[wildchild]

Off Topic

When David Stern held the office of NBA Commissioner, he fined the Spurs $250,000 after head coach Gregg Popovich sent four starters home the day of a nationally televised contest against LeBron James and the Miami Heat.
Adam Silver, who took over for Stern in February of 2014, isn’t likely to follow in his predecessor’s footsteps....But Popovich has long felt that resting his players during certain stretches of the league’s long, 82-game grind would be beneficial, and Silver, speaking at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on Friday, was willing to concede that as the league looks to make injury data available for all teams to analyze, it may ultimately prove what Popovich has known all along
The moderator of the panel then quipped that once all teams start embracing that sharing of data and begin to analyze it, Popovich won’t be able to sit four starters for a particular game anymore, because the information won’t support the decision.
“Or,” Silver said, “Maybe he’s right.”

Should give the Spurs their money back...

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...yers/#comments

[hater]

Nerds trying to take credit for the Spurs championships imo

truth bomb