{"id":1917,"date":"2018-05-23T17:36:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2018-05-23T17:36:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:36:41","slug":"basketball-stat-cherry-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/visualizacao\/basketball-stat-cherry-picking\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Stat Cherry Picking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_515\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2018\/05\/22\/basketball-stat-cherry-picking\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-515\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/files\/2011\/12\/FlowingData.png\" alt=\"clicar na imagem para seguir o link\" width=\"161\" height=\"29\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">clicar na imagem para seguir o link<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Deep into the NBA playoffs, we are graced with stats-o-plenty before, during, and after every game. Some of the numbers are informative. Most of them are randomly used to illustrate a commentator\u2019s point.<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the most common stats is the conditional that says something like, \u201cWhen player <em>X<\/em> scores at least <em>Y<\/em> points, the team wins 90 percent of their games.\u201d It implies a cause-and-effect relationship.<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers won the most games when LeBron James scored 30 or more points. So James should just score that many points every time. Easy. I should be a coach.<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit of stat cherry picking, trying to find something in common among games won. So to make things easier, and for you to wow your friends during the games, I compiled winning percentages for several stats during the 2017-18 regular season. Select among the star players still in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep into the NBA playoffs, we are graced with stats-o-plenty before, during, and after every game. Some of the numbers are informative. Most of them are randomly used to illustrate a commentator\u2019s point. One of the most common stats is the conditional that says something like, \u201cWhen player X scores at least Y points, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,80],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estatistica","category-visualizacao","tag-analise-de-dados"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}