Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Tyler Cowen Discovers a Marginal Teaching Moment in the NBA

Kind-of interesting. He writes:
The NBA’s marginal revolution in triple-doubles

If [Draymond] Green is truly gunning for triple doubles, there should be an increase in his production in the third stat category in games once he has secured a double-double. When Green has locked up a points/rebounds double-double, his assists per minute increases to 0.27 from 0.21. Similarly, when he has a points/assists double-double, his rebounds per minute rises to 0.44 from 0.28 and when he has an assists/rebounds double-double, his points per minute goes up to 0.69 from 0.40...

 I still think that sports as a medium for teaching both economics and statistics to younger individuals (and others) remains a somewhat underexplored opportunity…

2 comments:

  1. Sports is definitely a great way to learn about economics and statistics. I'm not sure if I agree that it's a "somewhat underexplored opportunity". Maybe he's correct in an academic sense. But there's plenty of information and "advanced stats" now for sports like baseball and basketball.

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  2. Shooting percentages, batting averages, figuring out multiples of 7 by watching football teams score touchdowns. Definitely great practice for young kids that learn quickly via their passion for information about the game

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