{"id":2756,"date":"2008-10-24T07:55:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T11:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2008-10-24T07:48:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T11:48:38","slug":"theres-nothing-wrong-with-you-that-i-cant-fix-with-my-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/theres-nothing-wrong-with-you-that-i-cant-fix-with-my-stats","title":{"rendered":"There’s nothing wrong with you that I can’t fix. With my stats."},"content":{"rendered":"

Possibly the greatest basketball-to-comics non sequitur ever, courtesy of ESPN’s NBA preview article on Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Morey grew up reading Bill James’ Baseball Abstract<\/em> and later worked for the stats guru, but his geekier tendencies might actually have more to do with his boyhood love of comic book anti-heroes who cut against the grain, figures like Frank Miller’s Dark Knight. “In a league in which 30 teams are competing for one prize, you have to differentiate yourself somehow,” Morey says. “We chose analytics.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s great is that this article is all about using calm, cool reasoning and “analytics” to explain the decision to trade for Ron Artest<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Bonus: Did I mention that the annual Virtual Memories NBA Preview will be posted on Tuesday morning, just in time for the debut of the 2008-2009 season? I just did!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Possibly the greatest basketball-to-comics non sequitur ever, courtesy of ESPN’s NBA preview article on Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey: Morey grew up reading Bill James’ Baseball Abstract and later worked for the stats guru, but his geekier tendencies might actually have more to do with his boyhood love of comic book anti-heroes who cut against … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “There’s nothing wrong with you that I can’t fix. With my stats.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,29,32],"tags":[401,402,403],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-nba-preview","category-sports","tag-daryl-morey","tag-frank-miller","tag-ron-artest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-Is","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":399,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/my-new-psychic-technique-is-unstoppablemy-new-psychic-technique-is-unstoppable","url_meta":{"origin":2756,"position":0},"title":"My new psychic technique is unstoppable","author":"Gil","date":"November 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"To quote my own NBA preview:The Pacers believe they were one knee-tweak to Jermaine O'Neal away from getting to the Finals last year, which avoids the reality that Ron Artest is a freaking maniac whom David Stern would've given his left arm to keep out of the NBA's biggest stage.And\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "basketball"","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":412,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm","url_meta":{"origin":2756,"position":1},"title":"NBA Preview: Central Divisionby Gil\u2026","author":"Gil","date":"November 5, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"NBA Preview: Central Divisionby Gil RothChicago BullsA few seasons ago, the Bulls made a huge gamble in the draft. 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