Computer predicted the correct Knicks record this season

[SunsRback4Good]

''Knicks finish with 37 wins, just as projected by computer system that team made fun of before season.

ESPN Insider's prediction for the Knicks' season, as forecast using Kevin Pelton's SCHOENE projection system, included a record of 37-45 — a staggering 17-win decline predicated heavily on an anticipated drop in 3-point shooting accuracy after losing the likes of Steve Novak, Chris Copeland and Jason Kidd, cramped spacing resulting in fewer and lower-quality looks for Carmelo Anthony, and the onset of age taking its toll on the many veterans that made up the Knicks' roster.

As you might expect, the Knicks didn't take too kindly to a prediction that they'd free-fall from division champs and No. 2 seed in the East all the way down to well-below-.500 and near the bottom of the playoff bracket.

"Sometimes there's glitches in the computer," said Anthony, who added he doesn't pay attention to predictions. "That's all I got to say." [...]
“Do they play? It’s a computer system. So I don’t think computers run up and down the floor. You still gotta play the game," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. "I don’t get caught up into that. Bottom line is we take it one game at a time and put our best foot forward and we try to win. That’s what it’s all about.
"I have no control over the computers, I really don’t," he added. "All I can control is our team and how we play, and that’s all I’m going to try to do.”

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball- ... 35295.html

[SunsRback4Good]

Double post. Sorry

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[spacemonkey]

That was a pretty epic double-double post.

[Young_Star11]

54 wins was a LOT for them last season and was based off unsustainable three-point volumes. If you told me 38 wins would be enough to make the playoffs I still would have picked them.

They were awful for 75% of the year.

[Apollo64]

'Melo wasn't wrong when he said that sometimes there are glitches in the computer. After all, SCHOENE projected the Detroit Pistons to finish fifth in the East while the Washington Wizards and Charlotte Bobcats missed the playoffs; it expected the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets to make the postseason while the Golden State Warriors and Portland Trail Blazers watched from home; and it anticipated the Phoenix Suns finishing dead last in the Western Conference. (Not that it was alone there.)

That system made also a large number of wrong predictions. Even a broken clock is right once etc.

Bottomline is that it's extremely difficult to make solid predictions about team records in preseason.

[omerome]

If the SCHOENE computer would of predicted that the major reason why the Knicks won 37 games was because Felton is the worst starting guard in the league, and arguably the worst guard overall, I would give it credit. Or the fact that Chandler plays when he feels like it.

Their explanation didn't fit the record.

[Johnny Firpo]

I would love to see all of the computer's predictions, i didn't see it in the article. Google search didn't help either.

[SlimD235]

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[HEAT33]

I predict they wont make the playoffs for the next 5 years...
Especially if Melo leaves

[RSCD3_]

Also They predicted 49 wins for the pistons give or take one...

Model still not perfect

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[ferk]

knicks need to replace woodson with this computer system.