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and where they repudiate them, there was usually some contingent out there challenging the notion anyway.
they are not well refined yet but they are getting better. you know that the teams use way more things that the news media does, they have ton of categories that they develop from within the organization (rockets, magic, mavs, etc).
IMO they need work, not as good as advanced stats in baseball, but certainly better than in some other sports (hockey's advanced stats are still really shitty).
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