Brian Skinner, physicist and basketball analytics extraordinaire, wrote a really...

Brian Skinner, physicist and basketball analytics extraordinaire, wrote a really nice blog post about this 3.5 years ago [1]. Mining the comments from that post shows it's been banged around numerous times before that [2][3].

[1] https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/parenting-...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/science/21qna.html?_r=1

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20071116094344/http://ourworld.co...