Interesting 'sabermetric' article about the NBA's Shane Battier

[homer]

Michael Lewis (author of Moneyball) wrote a piece in the New York Times about the Houston Rockets' Shane Battier and what makes him so valuable despite the fact he doesn't get the 'glamour' stats of other NBA stars. Interesting read for stat heads:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/20...tml?pagewanted=1&_r=2

[sbrylski]

I don't have much to comment other than this is a very interesting article. It kind of makes me want to watch some NBA, which is very odd.

[davego]

Very interesting. Seems that application of some sort of saber-metrics to basketball is/will be much more of a challenge then baseball.

[Schlitz001]

A very entertaining read by Michael Lewis. Maybe as more teams use some of these newly developed statistics, the number of fouls commited will be reduced, making the game more fluid.