"Muthuball": How To Build an NBA Championship Team

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 15, 2012 @05:48PM from the 13th-position-is-called-the-judas dept.

First time accepted submitter Quillem writes "Muthu Alagappan, a 5'9" biomechanical engineering undergraduate at Stanford, made a presentation at this year's MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference which might well do to basketball what Moneyball did to baseball. His contribution revolves around a topographical analysis of NBA games which contends that there are really 13 positions in basketball — not just five. Besides a rather patronising — but informative — read in Gentlemen's Quarterly, there are earlier stories over at Wired and NYT blogs. Muthu's talk and slides are also available."

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Sorry, but... by hyades1 · 2012-06-15 18:01 · Score: -1, Flamebait

It's basketball. Really, does anybody with a working brain really give a screw about this game? I guess it's marginally more interesting than soccer, but compared to games suitable for men to play...not so much.

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