finished reading SprawlBall: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
买了好久，终于翻完。Goldsberry是把数据分析引入NBA的最重要人物。从7，8年前开始读他的Grantland专栏。到现在虽然不太看篮球了，但这本书仍然是这十年的重要见证。见证的当然是数据驱动的联盟和建队策略，是三分射手的崛起和二分投射的凋零。事后之明，让人尤其感慨体育的「人为」性质。这是一个人为建立的环境，数据分析只是加剧了球队最优化效益的倾向。在引领了十年的风潮之后，Goldsberry自己也承认这加剧了联盟的monoculture。但多大程度上这会导致他希望的变革？经济收益很显著，球迷也对高比分比赛很享受。这个联盟似乎比以往更保守。下一个十年从什么地方开始？
Book
SprawlBall: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA
Douban
Kirk Goldsberry
publishing house:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2019
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What is SprawlBall?
The recent change in the NBA isn’t from large ball to smallball. It’s from large ball to sprawlball. Many of the most powerful areas on the court are now sprawling out from the interior, decorating the edges. And the men who thrive there are now the game’s most powerful players… Sprawlball explores the past, present, and future of a league in transition and attempts to capture the nature of this surreal time in the NBA.