If one item outside of hiring Alvin Gentry has dominated the reasoning behind the New Orleans Pelicans improving next year, it has been continuity. The simple thought that a team that keeps a majority of its players from one year to the next will be inherently better due to "chemistry." "Chemistry" is impossible to quantify, but there is a statistical way to quantify roster continuity and see if there is a correlation between that continuity and a team’s success. That statistical correlation can be employed to model the change in winning percentage as continuity changes, and that model can give one hell of a prediction for the Pelicans record this year.
New Orleans Pelicans betting on continuity have statistics on their side
