"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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This is amazing by Hermanas · 2012-06-15 18:14 · Score: 5, Funny

a 5'9" biomechanical engineering undergraduate
I, for one, welcome our new 5'9" cyborg overlords.
Re:Sorry, but... by jbeaupre · 2012-06-15 21:00 · Score: 5, Funny

your so fucking stupid

Sorry. Could you repeat that? The irony made me black out for a few seconds there.

that watching a bright orange 30 inch chunk of rubber
Sorry. Now my brain is bleeding. Could you start over?

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