{"id":377,"date":"2012-11-17T23:47:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T05:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/the-small-sample-size-oath\/"},"modified":"2012-11-17T23:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T05:47:51","slug":"the-small-sample-size-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/the-small-sample-size-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"The small sample size oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[I\u2019ve added individual stats to the team pages. Yes, this is the earliest ever, and the primary function for the next few days will be to provide a roster placeholder. Before using these stats, please take the oath below. We\u2019re all on the honor system here.]<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I, (state your name), understand that the player stats are based on extremely limited information in mid-November. I understand that <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/player.php?p=9900\">Erik Murphy<\/a> is not the best college basketball player of all time and that <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/player.php?p=11178\">Adreian Payne<\/a> is not going to grab anything close to 43% of opponents\u2019 missed shots nor 0% of his own team\u2019s misses for a full season. Additionally, I understand that some of the numbers displayed on these pages are utterly meaningless at this point, like <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/player.php?p=9469\">Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson\u2019s<\/a> free throw rate or anything on <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/player.php?p=10181\">Jordan Vandenberg\u2019s<\/a> line. I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the responsible use of advanced stats for individuals in mid-November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I\u2019ve added individual stats to the team pages. Yes, this is the earliest ever, and the primary function for the next few days will be to provide a roster placeholder. Before using these stats, please take the oath below. We\u2019re all on the honor system here.] I, (state your name), understand that the player stats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}