A couple of extra points about my piece in this week’s New Yorker on “Wages of Wins.”
www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?060529crbo_books1.
For those of you who haven’t read the article, it was a review of a book by three economists—David Berri, Martin Schmidt, and Stacey Brook—who have come up with an algorithm for assessing the value of professional basketball players. Simply put, they rank players according to what they call a Win Score—which is the number of wins that player alone can be said to have been responsible for in a given season.
Here’s the amazon link
to the book:
The author’s website is: www.wagesofwins.com
I’ve noticed, in reading reactions to the book around the blogosphere, a certain residual skepticism, particularly among hard-core basketball fans. . . . .
