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witnesslbj  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Not All Rebounds Are Created Equal - Contested Versus Uncontested Boards

It's an interesting question; Rodman was, without a doubt, one of the greatest rebounders ever. Have you read this: http://skepticalsports.com/?page_id=1222? It's a long series on the excellence of Rodman. The short version is that his rebounding ability is more of a statistical aberation than Jordan's scoring. I have a feeling he would be just as dominant in today's game, especially since that was his primary focus.





thenewgreen  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you for the link, I see it's broken in to 4 parts, I'll check out the first part tonight. I like the approach that your pieces seem to take, incorporating data and letting the numbers tell the story instead of the reverse. Cool stuff.

You ever write about Hockey/Baseball?

witnesslbj  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't write the Rodman piece, that was a guy called Benjamin Morris. I aim to do similar things though.

Unfortunately, I don't. The NBA is my true love haha. I occasionally read Hockey analysis because I know there's a lot of good stuff being done there, but I don't know much about the game.