markjay wrote:Doctor MJ wrote:Bladers wrote:Kobe averaged 44 points against the 06 mavs in the reg season!
How do I explain this?
Say you've got a player who averages 35 PPG. In any given group of 3 games, you expect him to score 35 PPG. If in one of those 3 games instead he scores 60, with the other two being roughly average games, then you would expect that the average over 3 games would be just about 44 points per game.
This is not at all the same as a player consistently putting up 44 points against an opponent, and certainly not the same as doing it in the playoffs.
So now you are taking into account standard deviations when calculating players' scoring? That's interesting, because I've never seen you or anybody else do that before. It's nice to see how you pull new tricks out of your hat to try to denigrate Kobe.
How about taking into account small sample size? That's the real issue here, and it's not a new trick. It's a really old trick that isn't actually debatable.
