SLC Dunk · Dec 2, 2016
Utah Jazz “Friday for the Weekend” #007: Meta-Metrics
Breakfast Discussion
On October 3rd of this year, Alexander Franks, Alexander D’Amour, Daniel Cervone and Luke Bornn (hereinafter referred to as AAD&L) published a paper entitled “Meta-Analytics: Tools for Understanding the Statistical Properties of Sports Metrics.”
Honestly, I have heard of Meta-Humans (thanks to the CW’s “The Flash” television series - you know humans with super abilities that were acquired by a particle accelerator explosion); but until now, had no idea that such a thing as Meta-Analytics existed. More specifically, Meta-Metrics.
What do Meta-Metrics do? They identify metrics that provide the best information to decision makers based on three criteria.