{"id":708,"date":"2016-09-23T17:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/?p=708"},"modified":"2016-09-23T17:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T21:56:03","slug":"personal-story-memo-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/personal-story-memo-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Story \/\/ Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking at how age\/college experience of NBA Draft picks correlates to NBA success. The independent variable (primary predictor) I&#8217;m keying in on is the amount of college games played, in 5 Tiers: \u00a0&lt;10 , 10-33 , 31 &#8211; 60, \u00a061-90 , 91-120+.The dependent variable will be # of NBA games played.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Im think of plotting the player points \u00a0in a 4 quadrant graph to plot the points data. My pool of players would be players selected in the last 20 years (that may be ambitious), with color coordinating for lottery (1-15), first round, and second round picks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are some other determinants for NBA success?\n<ul>\n<li>PER, career Prass (Points+Rebound+assists) average<\/li>\n<li>major award winners\n<ul>\n<li>MVP\/ROY<\/li>\n<li>All-NBA team appearances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Why hasn&#8217;t the Brandon Jennings theory caught on?\n<ul>\n<li>Some blue chip HS players like Brandon Jennings,\u00a0Jeremy Tyler chose to forego college and play overseas for a year before coming to the NBA. Tyler is out the league, and Brandon Jennings is a sixth man for the New York Knicks (his 4th team in 7 years)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agents<\/li>\n<li>Players (going to Hawks media day Monday)<\/li>\n<li>Coaches \/\/and scouts if available<\/li>\n<li>NBA media members (Woj, Zach Lowe)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking at how age\/college experience of NBA Draft picks correlates to NBA success. The independent variable (primary predictor) I&#8217;m keying in on is the amount of college games played, in 5 Tiers: \u00a0&lt;10 , 10-33 , 31 &#8211; 60, \u00a061-90 , 91-120+.The dependent variable will be # of NBA games played. Graphics Im think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/personal-story-memo-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Personal Story \/\/ Memo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bryan","tag-personal-story-memo"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MY21-bq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":428,"url":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/age-regs-background\/","url_meta":{"origin":708,"position":0},"title":"Age Regs Background","author":"Emily Greenwood","date":"August 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I'm not sure that I want to dedicate my personal story to this topic, but I have always found it really interesting. 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