Pro Basketball Forecast 2004-05

By John Hollinger

Long stuck in the rut of points, assists, rebounds, and blocked shots, basketball stats are growing up, evolving just as baseball stats did twenty years ago. John Hollinger and the Pro Basketball... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574886568
• ISBN13: 9781574886566
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Must for NBA Fantasy Fans

This book is a great resource for anyone involved in playing fantasy basketball. It provides insightful commentary along with per game statistics that let you know how even the most little-used bench warmer would perform if given a starting job in the NBA. Last year's book predicted great things for Zach Randolph and Michael Redd, and this year's book is packed with great articles and helpful info. I wish I'd known about this book two years ago!

New Concept in Predicting the Pros

This is a detailed analysis of virtually every player (I can't think of any he missed, but there could have been one or two). Each team has a couple of pages describing where they are, what happened last year and what it expected next year. Then it gets really interesting. Mr. Hollinger has developed a fairly sophisticated set of statistical standards that he then applies to each player on the team. This includes such things as analyzing the per-minute of play performance rather than the game performance. This says that a player getting ten points in ten minutes is better than a player getting 30 points a game (The results are something the NBA management should check out). Other statistics are likewise specially developed for this book. It makes you wonder if even the teams know this much about their players. John Hollinger never played in the NBA, he never coached, he just has spearheaded this new more analytical approach to pro basketball.