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Tag Archives: basketball
Infobesity: The Future of Sports Analytics
By the start of this upcoming NBA season, up to 20 teams will be employing wearable GPS devices created by the company Catapult, which will track player biometric data in real time. The championship Warriors were one of a number of teams to have used such devices already last season. The device, or variants on the theme, have already been employed Read more [...]
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Posted in Columns, Ryan, Sport
Tagged basketball, sports, statistics
Into the Abyss
More than two years ago, I wrote a blogcat about the SyFy channel. You can read the original here. I gave that article the title the "uncanny valley," after a well-known psychological phenomenon, describing the revulsion people tend to feel when they see something that almost-but-not-quite-perfectly mimics a human being (like creepy animatronics). Read more [...]
A Rebuttal: Why March Madness is the Pinnacle of Competition
Editor's Note: When this blog was started by a group of friends, we hoped it would become a running dialogue of our interests. In the purest sense, we would be communicating with each other, while letting others in on the conversation. Admittedly, there has been little communication between the contributors, with some spending more time in Bobcat Read more [...]
Posted in Columns, Ezra, Miscellaneous, Sport
Tagged basketball, Competition, March Madness, Miracle on Ice
Are You Not Entertained?
Last night, the Brooklyn Nets visited the TD Garden to play the Boston Celtics. The national attention focused on the event had nothing to do with the basketball being played, which over the course of the evening ranged from generally mediocre to outright terrible. Under most circumstances, the game would have been unwatchable, except for the most Read more [...]
The Daily Grind: Working 3 to 9 to 5
I guess what it comes down to is what kind of person you are. Do you play down to your competition, or do you do your best every time? Do you do only what is asked of you, or do you perform as well as you can no matter what your expectations are? Here's a question: what do you get paid for?Do you get paid to do the best job you possibly can? Or is it something else? Read more [...]
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Posted in Columns, Josh, Miscellaneous
Tagged 395, basketball, capitalism, jordan, kazaam, kobe, money, sales, Shaq