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I'm not. Dean Oliver is. John Hollinger is. If anyone reading this hasn't read basketball on paper, change that right now...
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Under the "Stats and Data Analysis", this should be reading for those that don't have a bachelors in NBA or a masters: Basketball on Paper by Dean Oliver
Garbage time, or playing up or down to a team, can be accounted for.
I don't wanna sound elitist but the explanation requires more math than I'm willing to do. If you're interested in it I would HIGHLY recommend Basketball on Paper by Dean Oliver. He has a chapter devoted to this subject that is really good and is eminently readable. The book itself is inspirationally good.
There's a lot of other sports stats guys who talk about the same thing. I think Wages of Wins talks about it a lot.
tl;dr: if you run the numbers and test which stat is more predictive, win record or point differential, it's point differential.
Not a book, but Nylon Calculus 101 is a good introduction to analytics. You could print it out if you want.
Dean Oliver's Basketball on Paper is a classic. Although published in 2004, it's still relevant.
I think we may have miscommunicated about your ambitions. What you're referring to is a scorekeeper and I don't think it requires much, if any, formal statistics training. You had mentioned getting a master's degree so I was talking about something different. Those who are trained as statisticians or related fields and hired by NBA teams are called many things but often has "analytics" in the title. Think Daryl Morey, Warriors, Sam Hinkie, etc. Using numbers to inform play style, acquisitions, trades, etc. Here is a book about it that seems aimed towards the layperson. This one is considered the "Moneyball" of basketball but is quite dated. This is by Kirk Goldsberry and is specifically about the 3-point shot and probably has the highest production value and approachability.
Of the books I've read:
On my bookshelf but I haven't read them yet:
the book of basketball by Bill Simmons is a good book that puts how good certain players were in context at the time it was written.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Basketball-According-Sports/dp/0345520106
Bballbreakdown http://www.youtube.com/user/bballbreakdown
on youtube is a cool channel that explains how certain offensives work and what is actually happening on the court.
basketball on paper by dean oliver is a good start to a statistical analysis of basketball.
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OK so my first really interesting read has been Mathletics by Wayne Winston and Basketball on Paper by Dean Oliver.
What I have learnt so far is that it really comes down to knowing your statistics, knowing how to apply them and building a spreadsheet from there, identifying patterns along the way.
These stats are from Dean Oliver's 2004 book (and earlier, on his website):
https://www.amazon.com/Basketball-Paper-Rules-Performance-Analysis/dp/1574886886