Found March 16, 2009 on Mistake Sports:
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If there are two things I can never pass up, they're a bowl of matzo ball soup, and a graph about the Cavaliers. So, since we haven't posted anything in a while, here are two Cavs graphs I cooked up, in which the Cavs themselves are represented in matzo ball-form. Sort of.This first one is pretty simple. It compares each Cav's O-Rating to his D-Rating. These metrics were developed by Dean Oliver and are available at Basketball-Reference. Anyway, the further to the right a player appears, the better his offense has been, and the closer to the top he appears, the better his defense has been, at least by Dean Oliver's methodology. The twist is that I've decided to represent each player as a bubble, whose size reflects how many minutes he's played. Click to enlarge:For your viewing convenience, here we have the same graph, but cropped to include only the interesting parts:By O-Rating and D-Rating, it looks like the most valuable Cavs, after LeBron, are in fact An...
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