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Numbers and trends from an atypical season

For all its complex strategic nuance and multi-variate statistical analysis, playing winning basketball – even at its most competitive NBA level – is a rather simple process. Indeed, there seem to be one or two numerical indicators that identify the winning team at an uncanny rate of accuracy … and no, I’m not referring here to simple point total.

“Official” Charity?

Does the answer lie at the Free Throw Line … is the team with more FTA’s more likely to win a game?

Last season’s Golden State Warriors posted 57 regular-season victories, then advanced to the NBA Finals for the fifth consecutive season.