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By the way, I could not find the "minutes played" stat for individual players until 1951. This is why my analysis begins on that year, even...
Correction: please replace "if and only" with "if and only if".
In the <a href="http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2424159>new thread</a>, I show that there is a very strong "if and only" relationship...
If Chinese centers in the NBA have been common in the NBA for the last 50-odd years, you might have a point. But they have not been.
Here is the data to support the converse: that no team going through a 3-year drought of significant rookies has ever won a championship in the...
Now for the data. Here are the significant rookies picked up by each of the championship teams. Notice that every championship team or dynasty,...
Introduction In a <a href="http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2417689">previous thread</a>, I reported on the possible discovery of a...
But every] championship team I have looked at so far (60 of them now) has satisfied the 3-year rule. What are the chances of that happening at...
You are mistaken. The Lakers won it all in 1999-2000. They got Kobe in 1996-1997, so the 3-year rule continues to hold.
They would of course be the same NBA season but different calendar years. That would not be a problem if sites like www.basketball-reference.com...
The new data is taking a bit longer than expected to analyze, so I will keep this thread going for one more day. No surprises in the new data so far.
I've said umpteen times already that merely having significant rookies does not guarantee you success. But if you want to win a championship,...
OK folks, there is a problem with year numbers. It turns out that "draft year" and "championship year" for the same season are different. For...
It's understood that "rookie drought" means "drought of significant rookies", using my definition of "significant rookie". (See my previous posts...
Lots, even since 1980. Three-year droughts of significant rookies are more common than you might think. And as far as I can tell, teams...
No, I only need to prove that teams with 3-year (or longer) rookie droughts never win the first championship of that generation of players. Which...
Well, there's always the odd exception that proves the rule. :D
You mean "lots of people have tried to refute me".
Yes, Vlade qualified: the Lakers won a championship in 2000.
You mean the JVG Knicks? That was my point: they traded away their draft picks in a "win now" frenzy, then had nothing to show for it. They also...
