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John Wake
About John
Realtor and Associate Broker, HomeSmart, Scottsdale, Arizona
John was the first person to predict that the inventory of homes for sale in metro Phoenix would increase sharply in 2014 and, therefore, Phoenix home prices would stop increasing in 2014. (Home prices had increased strongly during 2012 and 2013.)
John was one of the first experts to accurately call the bottom in metro Phoenix home prices in 2011. Almost everyone else at the time was convinced a huge "shadow inventory" of homes was going to crush home prices.
- Realtor 2003-present; Associate Broker since 2006
- Arizona Real Estate Notebook, Founder and Publisher since 2006
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- Arizona Department of Agriculture, Marketing Director. As its first director, John created the department's marketing programs
- U.S. Embassy, Paris, Agricultural Attache. John participated in negotiations between the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and the French Minister of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, Washington D.C., International Economist. John developed a computer program to access Dun and Bradstreet data that the agency used for many years to market their services.
- University of Florida, Master of Science, Agricultural Economics. Thesis title, "The Cost of Learning By Doing Effect on Technology Adoption"
- Arizona State University, Bachelor of Science, Ag-Industry. John paid his way through college by working the summers on forest fire fighting crews for the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in Globe, Big Springs, Tusayan and Kingman, Arizona. The last summer he worked on a helicopter fire crew.
- As a young man, John once hitchhiked from Miami to Phoenix.
- Graduated from Gerard Catholic High School in Phoenix where John paid his own tuition by working in a childrens' shoe store after school and on Saturdays.
- John was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona.
Professional Focus
John is a full-time Realtor representing both home buyers and home sellers.
John has been creating cutting edge online real estate marketing for over 10 years.
John's website Home Sale News (2002 version!) (2001-2011), for example, had the largest network of email newsletters about Arizona real estate for many years with over 15,000 weekly subscribers. John taught himself HTML, Perl and how to run an email server to create the network of 124 email newsletters, one for each zip code in metro Phoenix.
Then in 2006 John created Arizona Real Estate Notebook which continues to be one of the most popular real estate websites in Arizona with thousands of visitors each week.
Home Sellers - Call John at (480) 463-4475 to find out how you can get more exposure and better exposure for your home by using the best online marketing techniques.
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National Newspapers
John was quoted in an Associated Press article about the Arizona real estate market that was printed in The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Daily Star, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, FOXNews.com, MSNBC, ABC News and many other publications.
Funny story: The article was also printed in The Des Moines Register where one glorious morning John's mother-in-law stumbled upon John's name in her hometown newspaper!
Professional Committees
- Arizona Association of Realtors, Business Services and Technology Committee, 2010-2014
- Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center, Volunteer, 2003-2014
- Scottsdale Healthcare Auxiliary Board of Directors (the volunteers' board) 2010 to 2014, Treasurer 2012-2014
Married to Liz Wake for over 25 years and they have two adult sons and a pretty Papillion, Abby. John was one of nine children and he is still very close to his brothers and sisters. John is an ASU football fan and he loves dogs.


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Disco Duck
"Disco Duck" | ||||
Single by Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots | ||||
from the album The Original Disco Duck | ||||
A-side | Disco Duck (part one) | |||
B-side | Disco Duck (part two) | |||
Released | September 4, 1976 | |||
Format | 7" and 12" single | |||
Recorded | 1976 in Memphis, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Disco | |||
Length | 3:17 | |||
Label | Fretone (initial release) RSO (wide distribution) |
Writer(s) | Rick Dees | |||
Producer(s) | Bobby Manuel | |||
Certification | Platinum (RIAA)[1] | |||
Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots singles chronology | ||||
"Disco Duck" is a satirical disco novelty song performed by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. At the time, Dees was a Memphis disc jockey. It became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in October 1976 (and ranked #99 out of the 100 most popular songs of the year according to Billboard magazine). It also made the top 20 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart, peaking at number 15. "Disco Duck" was initially released in the south by Estelle Axton's Fretone label, but it was later released by RSO Records for national and international distribution.
Origin and storyline[edit]
Written by Dees, "Disco Duck" was inspired by a 1960s novelty dance song called "The Duck," recorded by Jackie Lee in 1965. According to Dees, it took one day to write the song, but three months to convince anyone to perform it.[2]
Combining orchestral disco styles with a Donald Duck–esque voice as the main plot point, the story within "Disco Duck" centers around a man at a dance party who is overcome by the urge to get up and "get down" in a duck-like manner. When the music stops, he sits down, but when he decides to get up and dance again, he finds that everyone in the room is now doing his dance.
Duck voice[edit]
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A misconception about "Disco Duck" is that the voice of the duck itself was provided by Clarence Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck in many Walt Disney cartoons, but on several occasions the Disney Company maintained that Nash never contributed to the song. The voice of the duck was performed by Ken Pruitt, an acquaintance of Dees, as stated on the label of the RSO release. For the live tour, the duck vocals were handled by Michael Chesney, another acquaintance of Dees.
Response and repercussion[edit]
"Disco Duck" became a nationwide hit in the United States by September 1976. On the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, it peaked at number one on October 16, 1976, for one week, held the number-two spot for the following four weeks and remained in the Top 10 for a total of 10 weeks.[3]
For all its success, "Disco Duck" was shunned by radio stations where Dees was living in Memphis, including WMPS-AM, the station Dees worked for at the time. Station management forbade Dees from playing the song on his own show and rival stations in the city refused to play it for fear of promoting the competition. When Dees talked about (but did not play) the song on his show one morning, his boss fired him citing conflict of interest. After a brief mandatory hiatus, Dees was hired by station WHBQ-AM, WMPS's primary competition in Memphis.[2]
By the time "Disco Duck" had become a hit, Dees and his "Idiots" started making the rounds of the popular TV music shows to promote the song. On American Bandstand (and similar shows), Dees lip-synched to the recording, alone on stage with puppeteer Rickey Provow animating a duck puppet that he had made. Ironically, this appearance was never seen in the Memphis area due to then-ABC affiliate WHBQ-TV pre-empting Bandstand for wrestling[clarification needed] at the time and for the aforementioned Memphis radio avoidance reasons. But when Dees appeared on The Midnight Special and a live tour up the East Coast he gathered together a band, backing singers and a commercial artist, Michael Chesney, to perform the duck vocals and did everything live.
"Disco Duck" even made an appearance in the film Saturday Night Fever, in a dance club scene in which a group of senior citizens were learning to dance disco-style. It was also featured in a deleted scene added back to the PG version. As it stands, Dees could have made an even more substantial amount of money from the song. According to Dees, his manager at the time made the unwise decision to deny use of the song on the film's soundtrack because of fears that it would compete with sales of Dees's own album.[4] The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack has now currently sold 40 million copies worldwide, and is the second best-selling soundtrack of all time.
Although "Disco Duck" hit #1 on the charts, Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio ranked the song at #54 on his list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever, stating that "six million people bought this piece of duck droppings in 1976. Not one of them would admit to doing so today."[5]
Chart (1976) | Peak Position |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[6] | 3 |
Canada Top Singles (RPM) | 1 |
Germany (Media Control Charts)[7] | 7 |
Italy (FIMI)[8] | 4 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[9] | 4 |
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[10] | 7 |
Norway (VG-lista)[11] | 3 |
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[12] | 3 |
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) | 6 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
Region | Certification | Sales/shipments |
Canada (Music Canada)[13] | Platinum | 150,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[14] | Platinum | 2,000,000^ |
^shipments figures based on certification alone |
- ^ RIAA Gold and Platinum Searchable Database - "Disco Duck". RIAA.com. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
- ^ a b Bronson, Fred (1992). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, 3rd Edition. New York, New York: Billboard Publications. p. 445. ISBN 0-8230-8298-9.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2001). Billboard Top 10 Singles Charts, 1955-2000. New York: Billboard Publications. pp. 305–307. ISBN 0-89820-145-4.
- ^ Boucher, Geoff. "A New Dees Dawn", The Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2006.
- ^ Wilkening, Matthew (September 11, 2010). "100 Worst Songs Ever -- Part Three of Five". AOL Radio. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Rick Dees And His Cast Of Idiots – Disco Duck" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
- ^ "Chartverfulgong > Rick Dees And His Cast Of Idiots > Disco Duck – musicline.de" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
- ^ "Hit Parade Italia - Indice per Interprete: D". Hit Parade Italia. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
- ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Rick Dees And His Cast Of Idiots search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40.
- ^ "Charts.org.nz – Rick Dees And His Cast Of Idiots – Disco Duck". Top 40 Singles.
- ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Rick Dees And His Cast Of Idiots – Disco Duck". VG-lista.
- ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Rick Dees And His Cast Of Idiots – Disco Duck". Singles Top 60.
- ^ "Canadian single certifications – Rick Dees – Disco Duck". Music Canada.
- ^ "American single certifications – Dees_ Rick – Disco Duck". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH
Preceded by "A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band |
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single October 16, 1976 |
Succeeded by "If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago |


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According to MCV, the Wii U sold 40,000 units in the UK during the first 48 hours on the market, completely selling out at retailers. The Wii U will trickle into stores throughout the rest of the year, but "abundant supplies" are not expected until the New Year.
Additionally, it's reported that 90% of the consoles sold were the Deluxe model, and that Wii U software attach ratio is about 2:1, meaning that for every console sold, two games were sold. These numbers exclude sales of digital software on the Wii U eShop. We recently posted a complete list of all the eShop titles available in the UK.
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APBRmetrics (Association for Professional Basketball Research Metrics) is a term used by a few to refer to the analysis of basketball through objective evidence, especially basketball statistics. APBRmetrics is a cousin to the study of baseball statistics, known as Sabermetrics, and similarly takes its name from the acronym APBR, which stands for the Association for Professional Basketball Research.
A key tenet for many modern basketball analysts is that basketball is best evaluated at the level of possessions. During a single game, both teams have approximately the same number of possessions, because they alternate possession. (A team can have slightly more if it begins and ends a quarter or half with possession.) However, over the course of the season, teams play at very different paces, which can dramatically color their points scored and points allowed per game. Therefore, these analysts favor use of points scored per 100 possessions (Offensive Rating) and points allowed per 100 possessions (Defensive Rating).
A second core tenet is that per-minute statistics are more useful for evaluating players than per-game statistics. From John Hollinger's Pro Basketball Forecast: "It's a pretty simple concept, but one that has largely escaped most NBA front offices: The idea that what a player does on a per-minute basis is far more important than his per-game stats. The latter tend to be influenced more by playing time than by quality of play, yet remain the most common metric of player performance."
A more complete explanation of possession-based analysis is available in "A Starting Point for Analyzing Basketball Statistics" in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.[1]
While the use of possession stats dates back at least as far as former North Carolina Coach Frank McGuire, modern quantitative basketball analysis came into existence when Bill James gained popularity for his Baseball Abstracts and basketball enthusiasts borrowed some of the ideas and the overall philosophy of the importance of statistical analysis for fine-tuning achievement. Early basketball analysts focused on "linear weights" statistics, which assign a value to each key statistic and add and subtract to find a player's total efficiency, usually on a per-minute basis and various brands of this were created and often became the basis for books. Among these people were Dave Heeren, Bob Bellotti, and Martin Manley.
Beginning in the 1990s, Dean Oliver began to popularize the use of possession statistics. Oliver and John Hollinger are credited with moving this use of basketball statistics into the view of more basketball fans through their websites in the late 1990s. Oliver published his book Basketball On Paper in 2003, while Hollinger began writing the Pro Basketball Forecast series in 2002.
Several dozen other serious basketball fans / analysts also have made regular and helpful contributions to fine-tuning the methods and their usage and advancing new approaches to research questions through the active APBRmetrics forum and now there are a dozen or more other sites where other fan / analysts are doing sophisticated work.
In the wake of the best-selling book Moneyball, which glamorized Sabermetrics,quantitative basketball analysis began to receive some attention from the media and NBA teams.{see list of media articles near bottom of this page http://www.sonicscentral.com/statsite.html} The goal was to find a more objective method of analyzing player performance and to find the most productive mix of players within the salary cap or budget.
In 2004, Oliver was hired as a full-time consultant by the Seattle SuperSonics, making him the first publicly acknowledged APBRmetrician to be employed by an NBA team full-time.
The Houston Rockets took the movement one step further in April 2006 by hiring Daryl Morey as their assistant general manager and announcing that he would replace Carroll Dawson as general manager after the 2006-07 season. Morey, previously Senior Vice President of Operations and Information for the Boston Celtics, had provided statistical analysis for the Celtics front office and wrote a little about advanced statistics for the Celtics Web site but had no traditional basketball experience as a player, coach or scout.
The Web site 82games.com, which debuted in 2003, brought the analysis of plus-minus ratings—how well a team fares with a certain player or lineup on the floor as opposed to on the bench—and counterpart production into the mainstream basketball knowledge (it had long been a common measurement in ice hockey). Additionally, there are useful breakdowns of certain statistics such as shooting percentages, sorted and measured by area of the court and time left on the clock. These statistics allow analysts to measure contributions not accounted for by traditional statistics, particularly at the defensive end of the court, an area which was underdeveloped in the first wave of new statistics, including PER and the initial player points allowed defensive rating (which was not based on play-by-play tracking of one-on-one defense, because it was not yet available, and also gave heavy weight to the points allowed by the rest of the team, as well as the player himself.)
During the 2006 NBA Playoffs, Synergy Sports Technology provided a free trial of a website that combined video of every NBA game, with statistical breakdowns of player tendencies similar to those long in use among NBA teams—going left vs right, being the ball handler on the pick and roll, etc. This combination of video and statistics is current used by many NBA teams. Public access to the combined video and statistical analyses has been discontinued indefinitely.
Notable quantitative basketball analysts[edit]
The growing field of quantitative analysts in basketball includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Dr. Ben Alamar is an Assistant Professor of Management at Menlo College and the founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. He is currently a consultant for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Roland Beech is the proprietor of 82games.com and has contributed his analysis to ESPN.com and SI.com. He is a consultant for the Dallas Mavericks.
Bob Bellotti was one of the first APBRmetricians, having invented "Points Created", a player rating system that attempted to boil all of a player's contributions into one number (similar to Bill James' runs created). Bellotti wrote several books in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and contributed to the NBA's official encyclopedia, Total Basketball.
Bob Chaikin is currently a basketball analyst for the Miami Heat, since the 2008–09 season. He worked previously (2003–04 to 2007–08) for the Portland Trail Blazers, and consulted earlier with the New Jersey Nets (early 1990s) and Miami Heat (mid-1990s). He is developer of the B-BALL NBA simulation software program used in the statistical analysis of NBA teams and players. He is also developer of the historical sports statistics databases for pro baseball, basketball, football, and hockey located at www.bballsports.com.
John Ezekowitz is an undergraduate who writes for the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, and his research has been cited by ESPN The Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and the Wall Street Journal. He was a consultant for the Phoenix Suns as a statistician.[2]
John Hollinger authored four books in the Pro Basketball Forecast/Prospectus series and was a regular columnist for ESPN Insider. His Player Evaluation Rating (PER) is a better linear metric system than most of what preceded it[according to whom?] but it is greatly influenced by a player's offensive usage; in the minds of some,[who?] too much so. It also lacks any assessment of shot defense and that distorts the view of who is good and not. Hollinger's work is read by many mainstream fans who are not familiar with APBRmetrics in general, making him instrumental in introducing the system to regular NBA fans. He is currently the vice president of basketball operations for the Memphis Grizzlies.
Justin Kubatko created and maintained Basketball-Reference.com, the pro basketball arm of Sports-Reference.com, until his departure from the company on August 24, 2013.[3] Sports Reference was named one of the 50 best websites of 2010 by TIME magazine[4] and won an Alpha Award for Best Analytics Innovation/Technology at the 2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.[5] Kubatko was also a statistical consultant for the Portland Trail Blazers for three years and has written numerous pieces for The New York Times and ESPN.com. He is currently the sole member and president of Statitudes, LLC, a consulting company based in Columbus, OH. The company's current client is the NBA.
Christopher Mehfoud is a multisport statistician for Virginia Tech, developed Offensive Player Point Worth, as well as modified the definition of Possessions.[6]
Dr. Dean Oliver is a former Division 3 player and assistant coach at Cal Tech (which almost never won a game) and a scout, who has consulted with the Seattle SuperSonics and also served in the front office of the Denver Nuggets. It is unclear how much either team improved because of his analysis because they started out good and had limited playoff success in those years. He currently works for ESPN. His old website, Journal of Basketball Studies, and subsequent 2003 book, Basketball on Paper, brought him some recognition as a principal leader in the field. His research dealt with the importance of pace and possessions, how teamwork affects individual statistics, initial crude defensive statistics, and the highly debated topic of the importance of a player's ability to create their own shot. His efforts to bring focus on the "Four Factors of Basketball Success" (field-goal shooting, offensive rebounds, turnovers and getting to the free-throw line) also help provide a simple framework for evaluation of players and teams.
Kevin 'Al' Pelton is a sportswriter who writes for BasketballProspectus.com and has written for 82games.com, Hoopsworld.com and SI.com. Pelton also covers the Seattle Storm for the team's Web site, stormbasketball.com, and formerly covered the Seattle SuperSonics. However, after the SuperSonics' departure from Seattle, he has "adopted" the Portland Trail Blazers in his coverage.[7] He has worked to acquaint mainstream basketball fans with statistical analysis. He moderated the APBRmetrics forum for many years before abandoning it without direct explanation. Pelton is known to be a fan of Christmas music from the artist Sufjan Stevens.[8] He was also a consultant for the Indiana Pacers. Pelton is also a widely followed sports commentator with over ten thousand followers on Twitter.[9]
Dan Rosenbaum is a consultant for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Rosenbaum's work has focused on adjusted plus-minus ratings, which takes into account the quality of the players playing with and against a player and adjusts his plus-minus accordingly. Cleveland has a decidedly mixed record on player decisions, which calls into question how much and how well adjusted plus-minus has been used there.[citation needed]
Jeff Sagarin and Wayne Winston pioneered adjusted plus-minus statistics with their WINVAL system, which has been used extensively by the Dallas Mavericks. Wayne Winston also produces impact rating that gives heightened attention to player performance in the clutch. The impact rating of Jason Kidd was very high and if it was used in Dallas' decision to acquire him, as seems apparent from what Mark Cuban has said, it paid off. The Mavs were one of the most clutch teams in 2010–11.[citation needed]
Common statistics[edit]
Among the growing list of advanced basketball statistics, here are some of the simplest and most important ones gaining increased usage:
Offensive Rating/Offensive Efficiency and Defensive Rating/Defensive Efficiency, on a team level, are calculated as points scored and points allowed per 100 possessions. Possessions are usually estimated by the following formula:
The .44 accounts for the fact that when a player scores a basket and is fouled, they shoot a free throw, which is not a possession. This is also true of flagrant fouls and technical fouls, while three free throws make up one possession when a player is fouled shooting a 3-pointer. It should also be noted that when analyzing College Basketball, APBRmetricians have used .475 as the free-throw multiplier, since the NCAA's rules about the team foul limit differ from those in the NBA.
Offensive rebounds are subtracted because grabbing an offensive rebound simply extends the original possession, rather than creating a new possession. If offensive rebounds were not subtracted in this manner, opposing teams would not necessarily have the same number of possessions in a game.
The .96 multiplier adjusts for team rebounds. Because these are not considered offensive rebounds, the formula slightly overestimates the number of possessions per team without the multiplier.
Therefore, team ratings are simply calculated as:
In addition to pioneering team offensive and defensive ratings, Dean Oliver adapted them to players in his book Basketball on Paper.
Effective Field-Goal Percentage (eFG%) accounts for the fact that 3-pointers are worth an extra point, something ignored by traditional field-goal percentage. Why is this important? Imagine a situation where one player shoots 6 layups, and makes 3 of them, while another player shoots 6 three point shots and makes 2 of them. Both players have scored 6 points on 6 shots, yet the first player's FG% is 50 percent, and the second player's FG% is only 33 percent. The second player looks like a terrible shooter even though he has scored just as many points on just as many shots. Effective field-goal percentage corrects for this by accounting for the extra point that 3-pointers are worth.
The formula is:
True Shooting Percentage takes this a step further by factoring in free throws. It is essentially points scored per shooting possession, but divided by two to look like field-goal percentage—PTS/(2*(FGA + (.44*FTA)))
Rebound Rate is the estimated percentage of available rebounds a player or team grabs.
Player Efficiency Rating is John Hollinger's linear-weights rating for a player's per-minute performance which reduces a player's total performance into a single number.
Pythagorean Record is what a team's expected record is based on points scored or allowed. This can be found by PF^14/(PF^14 + PA^14)
There are also several versions of passing ratings, a usage rating that measures how well a player does with the possession he uses, other general and skill specific defensive ratings and many other statistics and analytic ratios to aid understanding of player and team performance.
- ^ Kubatko, Justin; Oliver, Dean; Pelton, Kevin; and Rosenbaum, Dan T (2007). "A Starting Point for Analyzing Basketball Statistics". Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 3 (3 (Article 1)). doi:10.2202/1559-0410.1070.
- ^ "Pair of Students Get Jobs In Pros". Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ http://statitudes.com/blog/2013/08/20/hello-goodbye/
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2012721_2012880_2012751,00.html
- ^ http://www.sloansportsconference.com/?p=11455
- ^ https://scholar.vt.edu/access/content/user/chrism13/OPPW%20_%20PPE-1.pdf
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Basketball Prospectus Chat 12/16/09".
- ^ Pelton, Kevin. "Twitter".
External links[edit]
- Apbrmetrics The central discussion source for quantitative basketball analysis.
- 82games.com A wealth of player and team data, +/-, counterpart, by position, time on clock. Also in the past conducted spme in-depth studies of specialized questions often asked before but not rigorously analyzed.
- apbr.org Home of the Association for Professional Basketball Research provides discussion of historical topics and links to other such material.
- APBRmetrics Central Another old list of online resources.
- BasketballProspectus.com A new subscription-based online basketball analysis site from the publishers of the Baseball Prospectus.
- Basketball-Reference.com, current and historical stats, including many advanced stats.
- BasketballValue.com, raw and adjusted plus-minus for players and lineup data.
- BellottiBasketball.com, statistical consulting service for professional basketball teams
- BBALLsports.com, Bob Chaikin's site for computer basketball simulation and historical sports statistics database
- The City, A Warriors and NBA blog with an advanced statistical focus
- CountTheBasket.com the most comprehensive index of available stats by type and date on various sites around the web.
- DougStats.com, raw statistical data that can be copied into Excel for manipulation.
- Hollinger's ESPN Insider Archive
- HoopsAnalyst.com, some research columns and a strong set of information regarding the draft and trades
- Hoopsstats .com A wide range of player and team statistics and many often unique splits.
- Hoopdata.com, daily advanced box scores, advanced statistics, analysis and shot locations. Some news and articles in the past.
- Journal of Basketball Statistics, Oliver's very old and rough Web site (primarily useful to understand definitions if you do not have his newer book and to archive his early work)
- Ken Pomeroy's site, which tracks stats for College Basketball including advanced NCAA stats. Paywall for some information.
- PopcornMachine.net, game flows (charts player movement in and out of the game aiding but not totally settling the question of who guarded whom).
- "Rocket Science", Houston Press article on Daryl Morey using statistical analysis to manage the Houston Rockets.
- [2], "Using Box Scores to Analyze a Position's Value to WInning Games." A recent academic research paper looking at impact of player contributions by position and by statistical category.
- puresabermetrics.com, Sports picks based on APBRmetrics
- apbrmetrics.com, An independent website with projections, links, articles


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