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Based upon our expert sports analysis, we predict the Brooklyn Nets schedule to be pretty darn gruesome. Eleven games out of the first 16 away, 18 of the final 26 games to be played not in Brooklyn, and the first 10 games against some of the toughest contenders in the league. Ouch. This season will be most likely the most …

Cleveland will meet Golden State in the 2015 NBA Finals. I didn’t just want to take a look at player-by-player match-ups since the only thing that gets me excited is who will/can/would like to guard LeBron James? The Warriors appear to be confident that already have personnel with the abilities to stop the King James. Steve Kerr has given Draymond …

Only a handful of rookies manage to make a significant impact every season during their first year, mainly due to the pressure that they face from the media and the hype around them. The expectations build up as people try to project their role in their teams as future prospects. The 2015 draft has brought us some interesting names. One …

Once the NBA schedule has been released, you can download NBA league schedule and team schedules in exportable to Excel format to build your own analysis. 2016-17 NBA schedule has been released on 11th August, at 5:45 PM. Our NBA schedule analysis is also up. NBA 2016-17 regular season schedule is on its way. Last season, the schedule came out …

This is a guest post by Vincent La and Anirudh Jayanti who are undergraduate students at Dartmouth College. They studied on calculating the “skill curve” for players and tried to find out the optimal shot allocation among a certain five-man unit. In the end, for the Knicks’ sake, it gives you an idea whether Carmelo Anthony should shoot more or …

NBA 2015-2016 schedule came out on August 12, 2015. As usual on NBAstuffer, check out the team-by-team schedule analysis with sortable rest days (including back-to-back’s). And also don’t miss our NBA schedule visualization including team-by-team road trips & homestands analysis Download NBA schedule in excel format to build your own analysis

NBA 2014-2015 schedule has been released on 13th August, at 6p.m. ET. Download NBA 2014-2015 regular season league schedule in Excel As it’s been released, as usual, NBAstuffer got the new schedule analyzed in terms of various rest days and make all schedules available for download in excel format.

A long time NBAstuffer reader Damon Smith has studied on a new metric called “Scoring Contribution Percentage”, which is derived from True Shooting % and adjusted for extra possessions created by offensive rebounds, steals and blocked shots and for possessions lost from turnovers. Not only predicting the scoring differential, Scoring Contribution % can be applied at evaluating individual offensive efficiency …

I used to make these charts in the past. You can question how timely it is to post it right now but it’s a matter of me finding just some extra time. I hope it still makes sense going into the halfway mark of the season. Comments to @nbastuffer are welcomed! View infographic in full width

UPDATE: The schedule has been released! Rest Days Analysis All schedules available for downloading in excel format. The NBA 2013-2014 Regular Season Schedule is set to get released on August 6, 2013 at 6 pm. Once it’s been released, as usual, NBAstuffer will get the schedule analyzed in terms of various rest days and make all schedules available for downloading …

New schedule brings “back-to-back-to-back” situation that creates new types of rest days. It seems crazy at first, but you’ll get it when you go through the below examples. More insane events from the condensed season: the new schedule features a 9-IN-12! (nine games in 12 days) stint for the Hawks; Cleveland has a franchise-record 9 game home-stand; Toronto will play …

UPDATE (12/06) | SCHEDULE HAS BEEN RELEASED The shortened schedule is finally up. You can download the NBA schedule with each of the 30 team schedules in excel or play with the rest days breakdown. UPDATE (12/01) | SCHEDULE OUT TUESDAY 2011-2012 regular season schedule should finally be available by Tuesday night at 7 p.m. according to Associated Press. NBA …

NBA 2012-2013 Schedule has been released on July 26, 2012. You can download NBA league or team schedules in excel format to build up your own analysis. Check out the rest days analysis including opponents.

The NBA has unveiled a new statistical online service that allows fans to slice and dice all player and game history for the last 66 years. Going back to the inception of the League, the data covers every play ever made and offers insight into the current stats and analytics as well as those of years gone by. SAP has …

Downloadable NBA Schedules include full league schedule that has 1230 games with rest days&opponent rest days as each of the team schedules have 82 games with rest days&opponent rest days. NBA 2010-11 Schedules in Excel format (.xls) will be available for download Aug 10,2010 at 5:30 p.m. (et) Can’t wait for 2010-2011 NBA Regular Season Schedule? As always, NBAstuffer will …

Since the efficiency differential is one the best of predictors of future success, I thought it might be fun to visualize NBA teams (division-by-division) in terms of efficiency differential. L 5: stands for Last 5 games, and “Avg” stands for Season Average Atlantic Central South East North West Pacific South West

This is a guest post by NBAstuffer reader, William Rogers. He predicted things that are likely to happen in the second half of the season. NBA regular season lasts for 25 weeks. Since we have just passed the 15 weeks mark, let’s list what we would expect in the remaining 10 weeks. The battle for a playoffs spot will come …

Advanced metrics and NBA stats have done great things for the game, but the most important development would be the ability to quantify a player’s defense! Imagine that there is an opportunity to quantify the in-depth defensive abilities of NBA players just like we can measure offensive abilities. This would be an excellent improvement for the NBA community and the …

This blog post is not written much from an advanced stats viewpoint. I just wanted to share my thoughts, observations, and predictions for the rest of the Playoffs 2011. Let’s list the weakest links team-by-team first. EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago: Keith Bogans has been playing 38.5% of minutes. In contrary to Tom Thibodeau, I don’t think he even is an average …

We know you have been using our NBA rest days stats to make better decisions. Let’s take a deeper look at it! Is there any statistical edge to get over the sportsbooks? When NBA betting, closing the NBA number by a point can be beaten and it is possible to add an extra 4% to the winning percentage. Taking an …

You can always follow current season’s NBA rest days stats including back-to-back game stats at NBAstuffer. After the win over OKC, Portland improved to 14-3 W-L (.823) in second game of back to back sets. This is by far better than any team in the NBA. They have played with a plus 4.3 efficiency differential, which is already adjusted to …

Click to go to 2010-2011 Season NBA Player Movements Click column headers to sort. Reverse the sort order by clicking on it twice. Click player’s name to learn more about the transaction. {tab= PLAYERS ADDED} Type Date New Team Former Team Position Player 2009-2010 Salary Extend 04/20/2010 Por Por C Marcus Camby 8,850,000 Extend 04/08/2010 San San SG Manu Ginobili …

DOWNLOAD 2009-2010 NBA SCHEDULE and TEAM SCHEDULES IN EXCEL People can’t wait for 2009-2010 schedule! As always, NBAstuffer will be offering the schedules in excel files once it has been released. The whole league schedule will be available for download as well as 30 individual team schedules. THE RELEASE DATE? The schedule guy, Matt Winick only knows the exact date …

With the regular season has come to an end, the Nets has been the most inconsistent team so far. To get a better understanding, just take a look at their game-by-game efficiency differential changes. As you can see, being inconsistent is a consistent thing for the Nets. Way too many zig-zags. For those of you who are curious about how …

Here’s what happened -correction: what did not happen- in this boring offseason so far. I wanted you to pay attention to all of the infected sides while we are waiting for the huge Wednesday. The NBA lockout has reached a point at which it has begun to negatively impact everyone from fans to players and everyone in between. This is …

I’m pleased to inform that team stats table now has strength of schedule (SOS) and schedule adjusted ratings (SAR). These two key metrics are broken down to splits such as last 5 games, playing on the road and at home. Interested in Miami Heat’s strength of schedule for just home games? It’s a matter of Heat’s opponents’ average efficiency differential …