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By: Who Should be on the 2016 USA Olympic Basketball Roster? | The Wages of...

[...] comes around. This means much of the roster (and this happens to include Melo and Kobe) will be well past their prime. Making sure to keep ahead of the curve, Dave made sure to do some advanced...

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By: It Really Is All About the Players

[...] include LeBron James and Chris Paul (so much for rules!).   Both players will be 31 in 2016.  And although players tend to begin to get noticeably worse in their 30s (and tend to stop improving...

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By: ¿Cuánto hubiera cobrado Rudy Fernández? | La Crónica Desde El Sofá

[...] PER, Wins Produced) de los últimos 3 años, ponderando más los años más recientes, y utiliza el modelo de Arturo Galletti de la página The Wages of Wins, que explica que la producción estadística...

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By: The Scientific NBA Rankings (181 to 330): Fillers and Bench Warmers | The...

[...] signs of coming back to previous form. We also have some young players progressing nicely thru the Age curve in Avery Bradley, Ishmael Smith, Grevis Vazquez, Kevin Seraphin, Luke Harangody and...

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By: The Magic Effect: Can you make your team mates better? | The Wages of...

[...] and all of the playoffs — and he was about half as productive as the year before. He had also just turned 30. In essence, Worthy dealt with both injury and the most risky age simultaneously. Now,...

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By: Yeh Points: Cuban’s Misconceptions about the “Disappointing” 2004 Lakers...

[...] Malone was a below average power forward and Payton was only slightly above average in 2003. Given their advanced ages, one would expect them to decline further in 2004.  Instead, both responded...

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By: Can Happiness Improve Players? | The Wages of Wins Journal

[...] a season with the mavs and with some other team over the last decade and taking into account the Age model evaluated whether they were worse with the mavs, better or the [...]

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By: The Thunder’s Epic Failure

[...] draft sheet. Jeremy Lamb? He ranks 25th! And this of course leaves out that Harden is at the ideal age, while Lamb won’t hit his peak for a while. Finally, the draft picks may be nice. Except,...

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By: Winning Consistently in the NBA

[...] If we look at the Thunder’s top performers, only Nick Collison is past his peak — using Dave and Arturo’s age data. If the Thunder can stop playing Perkins they’ll be even scarier. And if they...

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By: Are the Grizzlies for Real?

[...] we examine Mike Conley we see he’s playing the best of his career. Now, he’s young and entering his prime. It’s also possible he’s on a hot streak. Of course, even if he regresses, he’s [...]

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By: NBA Power Rankings for the 2012-13 Season volume #3: Love Hurts

[...] said before that Houston features one of the youngest rotations in the league and should improve as the season goes along. Well, guess what, that is exactly what is [...]

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By: NBA Rankings Midseason blowout

[...] Those Rockets continue to make some real noise in the pack out west. Their youth and their improvement as the season goes along is going to continue to bear watching. [...]

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By: Was Isiah Thomas one of the greatest point guards ever?

[...] thing about Isiah is that he’s hard to explain. You see, he followed the classic age curve flawlessly. He started slowly as a rookie, improved and was looking great heading into his prime....

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By: Sport Skeptic

[...] can change dramatically.  Take, for example, the year-to-year correlation chart near the end of this post.  It shows that the correlation in Wins Produced for players who change teams is much...

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By: Is it over for Grant Hill?

[...] Kareem have faltered. After a player hits thirty it’s not a question of if but a question of when they won’t be able to play any longer. Despite having a storied career with an amazing comeback,...

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