Best NBA Preview Mag?

[ZanglerBets]

Anyone have recommendations for a good NBA Preview Mag? In baseball there's Baseball Prospectus' "Book" which is awesome. Looking for something comparative with in-depth look at teams / players / coaches.

 

[B.A.R.]

Wish I could help, have not bought a mag in years. I just try and trust on-line stuff, local stuff from guys here and social media.

Bump though to get to the top.

 

[CASH]

Same as Bar.

I know you mentioned indepth look.. but is there something specific you are looking for?

 

[ZanglerBets]

Nothing specific really, just something that doesn't have all the "fluff" of a regular preview mag and goes into more statistical detail. The Baseball Prospectus Annual Guide is great about that w/ all its Sabermetric stats and I was looking to see if NBA had something comparable.

My ultimate goal is to build a player-based game simulation model using markov chains. Any / all "sabermetric"-like basketball stats would be useful...A good site that has some of this along with game simulation models is this one:

www.apbr.org

There's good discussions under the 'Metrics Discussion Forum'.

 

[Gyno]

I'd like to know this as well..

 

[CASH]

might not be exactly what you want put you could start with:

http://www.sloansportsconference.co... Algorithmic Taxonomy of Basketball Plays.pdf

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2013/how-numbers-can-reveals-hidden-truths-about-sports-0301

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Sloan_Sports_Analytics_Conference

I believe one of these study's from last year said that David Lee is statistically the worst player (of a starter) defensively..