by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
John Hollinger, Matt Yglesias, Malcom Gladwell, and David Berri have been debating the merits of two different basketball player evaluation schemes, both of which are vastly superior to traditional metrics. We're getting a bit outside my numbers-geek fields of baseball and politics, but the field of sabrmetrics [the numerical analysis of baseball] has a lesson to teach us, setting aside difficulties of disaggregating individual performance in a team sport and measuring the opportunity cost of failed steal/block attempts.
