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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by paganel on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:29AM (#16484077)
> The NBA has an advanced metric for that called gravity. As you could imagine Steph Curry's gravity is through the roof.

Happen to have any additional reading on that? (only if it's a handy link for you, otherwise I'll google it). I've re-started watching NBA recently after about 20 years or so, and it's the first time when I hear about this concept, one which sounds very intriguing and interesting. Maybe it was also used 20 years ago, but back then I didn't have access to Internet and as I don't live in the States the local sports newspapers (which care more about football/soccer) weren't mentioning it.

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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by qaz_plm on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:40PM (#16486053)
Have a look into this ESPN article (http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/11744634/explaining-gravi...), it touches on the determining factors and how it's quantified.
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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by GVIrish on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:15PM (#16484610)
I can't think of any one particular article that goes into the details of gravity and some of the related metrics (respect and distraction being the others). Maybe lookup NBA gravity scores and SportVU. I believe the company that sells the SportVU system are the primary ones tracking that metric (and delivering it to teams).
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