迈克尔·刘易斯在本周末的纽约时报杂志的一块，“无统​​计全明星。" The focus is on the Houston Rockets' Shane Battier, and to a lesser extent on their General Manager, Daryl Morey. Morey is a a bit of a stats geek, and Battier is a basketball player with "no stats," a prototypical team player who Morey identified and signed for Houston. But how? Here's a clue:

一个众所周知的统计，火箭队的前线办公室注重为正负，这只是措施所发生的比分时，任何球员在球场上。In its crude form, plus-minus is hardly perfect: a player who finds himself on the same team with the world’s four best basketball players, and who plays only when they do, will have a plus-minus that looks pretty good, even if it says little about his play. Morey says that he and his staff can adjust for these potential distortions — though he is coy about how they do it — and render plus-minus a useful measure of a player’s effect on a basketball game. A good player might be a plus 3 — that is, his team averages 3 points more per game than its opponent when he is on the floor. In his best season, the superstar point guard Steve Nash was a plus 14.5. At the time of the Lakers game, Battier was a plus 10, which put him in the company of Dwight Howard and Kevin Garnett, both perennial All-Stars. For his career he’s a plus 6. “Plus 6 is enormous,” Morey says. “It’s the difference between 41 wins and 60 wins.” He names a few other players who were a plus 6 last season: Vince Carter, Carmelo Anthony, Tracy McGrady.

这是一个有趣的故事的一小部分;这是刘易斯在他的最好的。由于铝罗斯发送的链接。罗斯在后市场设计标识的委托代理问题，关键在篮球个人和团队的生产力之间的矛盾。刘易斯的帐户也说明像莫雷创新的管理者如何能缓解这一问题。虽然刘易斯大多集中在巴蒂尔，运动员和人，经济冲压生产线在我看来，住在莫雷，总经理。正如罗斯指出，“篮球合约可能会改变”作为自己的创新的结果。好东西。

***莫雷，作为引述迈克尔·刘易斯