Foreword / by Tim Bontemps -- Introduction -- An introductory note on data and context -- What basketball analytics is not -- Speaking the dialect: basketball stats as language -- Credit where it's due -- Goodhart's law: on playing the drill -- But who's counting? -- Evidence of things not seen: impacts behind the box score -- Mind the cap: player value and roster construction -- The midrange theory -- Chasing ghosts: evaluating defense -- Two for one and other trivialities: the little things -- The 82 and the 16: playoff game theory -- The practice of NBA analytics -- Trying to do theimpossible well: the many pitfalls of the NBA draft -- Next?
Summary
"From one of basketball's foremost experts in the field of analytics, a fascinating new perspective on how to watch and think about the game"-- Provided by publisher.