http://bullsbythehorns.com/?p=20 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:36:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://bullsbythehorns.com/?p=20&cpage=1#comment-12 eric b Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:37:20 +0000 http://bullsbythehorns.com/?p=20#comment-12 One player’s +/- is clearly dependent on how other players perform while he is in the game. A player can do nothing and have a fine +/- or play well and have a poor measure. this is the same reason that serious stat-guys in baseball don’t take runs batted in seriously for hitters or wins and losses for pitchers (which is, essentially, a plus/minus system). Not sure why anyone pays attention to it, but I guess that this the work of people with no math training trying to make what they do seem more rigorous. See phil rogers’s plus-minus system for rating offseasons for baseball teams. its like a kid playing doctor or architect. wearing a white coat and a stethoscope doesn’t allow one to treat patients, and throwing pluses and minuses around doesn’t necessarily help us value players accurately.

]]> http://bullsbythehorns.com/?p=20&cpage=1#comment-2 Bulls-Knicks: At a glance » By The Horns Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:43:22 +0000 http://bullsbythehorns.com/?p=20#comment-2 [...] woes, Andres Nocioni was 1-for-9 but mysterously had the best plus-minus score on the team (+5). Hey, science has proven that the Bulls need him on the floor. The Boys in Red also got pretty careless with the ball – their 17 turnovers were [...]

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