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Title: Pro Basketball Prospectus (Pro Basketball Prospectus, 2003-04) by John Hollinger ISBN: 1-57488-655-X Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fan-tastic
Comment: This is an amazing work. As a long-time reader of Bill James and the "Baseball Prospectus" staff, I had my doubts as to whether a similar statistical approach would work when applied to basketball. John Hollinger, though, allays those fears.
Hollinger has developed several statistics that illuminate the game, including Player Efficiency Rating (PER), which is a stat taking into account most of the ways a player can influence the game. PER seems to me to be on par with OPS or TPR (similar baseball stats) in assessing player performance. This is truly groundbreaking work.
Moreover, Hollinger shares with Bill James an ability to write. His essays on each team are informative, entertaining, and on-the-money, as are his player comments. I would recommend this book equally to an NBA fan and to the "Baseball Abstract"/"Baseball Prospectus" fan willing to cross over (dribble) to the NBA.
Rating: 5
Summary: NBA equivalent of the old Bill James annual
Comment: John Hollinger is as good an NBA basketball writer as there is today. Last year, in his first "Prospectus", he revealed himself as the Bill James of basketball, an entertaining, funny writer who is both a keen observer of the game and its players, and an expert in innovative methods of using the available statistics to analyze team and individual performance. The book reminded me of James' annual "Baseball Abstract" of the 80s, which I eagerly looked forward to every year.
There hasn't been an annual book with a comprehensive scouting report on each NBA player since Rick Barry and Jordan Cohn stopped writing the "Pro Basketball Bible" a few years ago, so Hollinger is filling a big void for NBA diehards. Hollinger's discussions aren't as detailed as Barry/Cohn's, but they're insightful, accurate, and the best I've found on the book market. He has a good eye for evaluating player skills, and doesn't just recite numbers like a rotisserie league groupie.
Basketball statistics aren't as informative as baseball's, and are pretty poor at assessing the defensive end of the floor. Hollinger has come up with measures that give a better indication of a player's value than the official stats, and has the all-too-rare skill of knowing how to PROPERLY use basketball statistics. This year, Hollinger doesn't provide a separate essay on statistics related to each team. Instead, he expands upon last year's methods for determining each team's defense against each position, and provides a "Similarity Scores" method to estimate how a young player's performance might evolve in coming years. The book includes a chapter on each team, with a two-page evaluation of the team's overall performance, followed by a brief statistical summary for each player and a few paragraphs on that player's strengths and weaknesses. This is a book with a limited target audience, but NBA fanatics like myself will find it invaluable. I hope to be buying this book for many years to come.
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Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty good..............
Comment: Lots of interesting insights and some nice studies. Some of the studies are probably flawed in that he doesn't collect all the datat available to analyze, and he uses the same, similar stats to praise Alan Iverson and bury Jason Williams, but basically a very solid effort.
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Title: Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis by Dean Oliver ISBN: 1574886878 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Baseball Prospectus 2004: Statistics, Analysis and Insight for the Information Age by The Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts ISBN: 0761134026 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Pro Football Prospectus 2003 (Pro Football Prospectus, 2003) by Sean Lahman, Todd Greanier, Lahman Sean ISBN: 1574886576 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Official NBA Register : Every Player, Every Stat by NBA, Sporting News, David Walton ISBN: 0892047194 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Official NBA Guide : The Ultimate 2003-04 Season Reference by Sporting News, NBA, Craig Carter ISBN: 0892047178 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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