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Measuring Consistency

A while back I decided to look into player consistency, but after doing initial calculations, I never went any further. After Namita Nandakumar's VANHAC  presentation on consistency, I decided to go back, refine my old work, and release the results. Namita's methodology is likely much more statistically relevant and meaningful, but nonetheless, I use a different approach that I think is worth sharing. The methodology I adopted was taken from this article on Nylon Calculus on NBA player consistency written by Hal Brown. This consistency metric gets the normalized variance of a player's performance for a given metric. In this post, I will be calculating the consistency of a player's game score  (GS) in individual seasons, from 2007-08 to 2015-16, using the data provided at the bottom of the linked game score article. I also have a folder with my code + better resolution graphs + data at the bottom of the article if you'd like to check it out. Calculation This