og15 wrote:Bad correlation, it depends what the statistical analysis is and what one is attempting to prove. You can analyze one game statistically to prove that ______ player had a bad game that ONE game. But you can't use that game to prove he is a bad player or had a bad season. There is no general extrapolation being made from this statistical analysis outside of that one game being mentioned. So it would be like saying based on a day of observation that the day being observed was dry in Seattle, or that Seattle can have dry days.floppymoose wrote:statistical analysis of basketball is valuable over a very large number of games. Over just one game, it's crazy stoopid. It's like concluding that Seattle is a dry city based on one day of observation.
The article seems to be addressing the larger issue of the integrity of the game in general. To that extent the data is worthless, in that it's too small a sample size.
The portions of the article dealing with just the one game can be summarized this way: yes, it was poorly called, and ended up favoring the Lakers. But we all new that already.
