NBA Retrospective

We chronicle the rise of Linsanity from Harvard to undrafted to media sensation. We also discuss Lin's brief time with the Steph Curry Warriors.

We break down our four featured teams--the Heat, Thunder, Clippers, and Bobcats--and reveal a surprising metric that can lead teams to NBA championships.

We look at Four Factors performance for the 2011-12 NBA season including some surprising results from playoff teams.

We break down four teams in terms of Elo progression, and note surprising parallels between the 2012 and 2025 Oklahoma City Thunder, our most recent NBA Champions.

We discuss the 2011-12 playoffs. We note a major underachievement, a major overachievement, and talk about two "new classic" teams who reached the finals.

We introduce the 2011-12 NBA season, noting several key parallels with current league events. We also look at Elo projections for regular season performance and compare with reality.

The long-awaited conclusion to our coverage of the 2004 Lakers season. We go behind the scenes of the Western conference finals against the Timberwolves and the NBA Finals against the Pistons. We also compare defensive metrics for the Lakers and Pistons based on a game plan from Phil Jackson.

Time to talk about the Lakers in the 2004 PLAYOFFS! Plus, inside Shaq's free throw trouble and a potential fix with whom the team parted ways.

We discuss the NBA's worst-kept secret--teams tanking for top draft picks-- and what the league can do about it.

We chronicle the soap opera-like drama--and relate it to the data--of the 2003-04 Lakers regular season. This was the NBA's first "superteam" that I can remember. Also, if statistics are not your cup of Mountain Dew, this episode is for you.

We are taking a break due to statistics tutoring business, but we still have the 2004 Lakers episode coming up, which resembles a soap opera. We also have Linsanity ahead. Stay tuned!

We break down six teams in Elo and Four Factors projections and show why defense wins championships.

We discuss the Four Factors model as it applies to the 2004 season. We also compare it to the previous Elo model. Finally, we talk about the state of the NBA All Star Game.

We break down six teams in terms of Elo achievement. We also briefly discuss the groundbreaking trade that went down in the current NBA.

Finally talking about PLAYOFFS! We had some epic Western conference clashes; especially Lakers-Spurs in second round. Also an epic matchup in the Eastern Conference Finals that unfortunately invokes a painful memory for the NBA.

We continue to explore the dichotomy between the East and that Wild Wild West. Specifically, we look at the Atlantic Division in the East and Pacific in the West. We discuss an absurdly high number of overachievers, underachievers, and accurate achievers for the season. Your host then leaves to tutor statistics before he can talk about PLAYOFFS! You'll hear about those in the next episode.

We discuss the 2003-04 Lakers team who went for it all and missed this season. We also talk about some major overachievements in Elo projection and an extremely elite Western conference.

We break down the 76ers season using Elo and Four Factors metrics. Does it matter that AI and Brown didn't get along? Did the 76ers make the right decision to trade Ratliff for Mutombo? We break that down too.

We continue to chronicle the 2001 76ers season from the big Dikembe Mutombo trade to the historic Game 1 Finals win over the Lakers. You'll hear player reactions from Theo Ratliff, Allen Iverson, Shaq, and others.