You can't look at two games of any type and know too much about a team but even that analysis finds a weak but actual predictive power from something we think is entirely meaningless. It's predictive as an additive factor to prior expectations, not as a thing devoid of context. x.com/kmedved/stat...
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Kostya Medvedovsky (@kmedved) on X
I've looked at the predictive power of preseason results before, and there's real value here.
I'll do full writeup/tweet thread on the methodology, but a +32.5 preseason net rating suggests we should...
