Posts Tagged ‘ statistics ’

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20
Mar

Monta Ellis Win vs. Loss

Yesterday I looked at some of David Lee’s stats in wins versus losses.

Today we look at Monta Ellis’s PTS in wins versus loses.  Simply, Monta’s PTS total shows differences in wins and losses that are statistically significant (the notches do not overlap).  Monta scores more points in a Warrior’s win than he does in a loss.  While it is not surprising that this trend is true I did find it somewhat surprising that the difference has a p value<0.05 as none of the things I have looked at so far show statistical significance.

 

 

 

 

 

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20
Oct

Warrior’s win total over/under: some easy money?

Cash Money (part two)

Arturo Galletti over at Arturo’s Silly Little Stats knows a whole hell of a lot more than any of us about statistics. I usually have to pull a George W. Bush and mostly use my gut for my season win total predictions.

He thinks taking the Warriors on the over is easy money. His prediction is for 45.55 wins, which my gut says is overly optimistic. How he did his predictions can be found in two parts: part 1 and part 2. Again I don’t know enough about stats to quibble with his predictions but my gut tells me again that Portland is not the second best team in the league behind only the hated Miami Heat.

Will the W’s really make the playoffs and win 45-46 games? Thoughts?

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