How Stats Inform and Distort The NBA Awards Debate with Howard Beck and Seth Partnow (EP 90)

Sports Business Classroom Audio Experience

This episode of the Sports Business Classroom Audio Experience is from a previously recorded webinar on “How Stats Inform and Distort the NBA Awards Debate“ hosted by Howard Beck (previously with Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report, NY Times) and Seth Partnow (Director of North American Sports for StatsBomb and contributor for The Athletic). Howard and Seth are also joined by SBC General Manager Larry Coon to discuss the upcoming Business of Basketball Immersive Experience and help navigate live questions from webinar attendees.In this episode, Howard and Seth discuss:

• Analytics vs eye test when evaluating players
• Utility and validity of factoring all-in-one stats
• Point of view from a reporter and award voter
• Which advanced stats to take into account
• Questions from webinar attendees

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