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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 884990, member: 767"]
The accuracy comments are a little puzzling to me.

No stat is perfect.  Shooting % would have told you that Trevor Cooney is a 45% 3 point shooter or whatever it was before yesterday.  Since he shot 2-11 or whatever it was instead, does that mean shooting% is an inaccurate stat?  If you expect any stat to be 100% accurate, then you should be throwing everything out.

Yeah, I wanted to comment on this as well, because it seems like we have some people talking about using some of these stats as predictors.  I dont think anyone is using individual player stats to predict the outcomes of games, it's more on a team level.  (Though like i said, we seem to be going all over the place so I don't know)

On a team level, I find the efficiency based stats to be very useful and pretty predictive.  100% predictive?  Of course not, nothing is.  On an individual level, there is a ton of noise in all the data and you need to be aware of all of the things that don't show up in the stats when you are evaluating guys.  And for the record, a lot of the time, for guys like us who are just fans and have lives going on outside of this, that's kind of impossible.  But you look at some of the stuff the NBA can track with synergy and the sportvu cameras, and it's pretty amazing
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