In the absence of your regularly scheduled off-season news, ESPN has been running a neat little ranking of the top 500 NBA players. Here’s what ESPN had to say about their NBA Rank: We asked 91 experts to rate each player on a 0-to-10 scale, in terms of “the current quality of each player.” … To decide which players to

Advanced Team and League stats are now available for the 2010-11 season. Please see the Glossary for an explanation of the various statistics used. When it comes to advanced stats in the D-League, there isn’t a ton of data available.  Sure, the D-League website provides some basic stats, and Basketball-Reference provides some advanced stats on their D-League page, but they

With the NBA D-League schedule having been announced recently, and a little help from MS Excel, I’ve gone through and done an analysis of the BayHawks schedule.  I calculated the number of games in which the BayHawks had 3+ days of rest, 2 days of rest, back-to-back games, and 4 games in 5 nights.  Then, I did the same thing

In a recent study by the Sports Business Journal, Erie, PA, ranked 25th out of 248 minor league markets. The study looked primarily at three factors weighted as follows: Tenure (67%) Attendance (20%) Economy (13%)