Game Score style scoring

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Empirical Basis for Traditional Points

Quick confession: my initial impressions of “traditional points” was that they seemed pretty arbitrary and so I opted for a categories league for the inaugural season of Ottoneu Basketball. But a few weeks into the season, I was curious about how traditional points compared to some basic empirically based point values. Spoiler alert: quite well, somewhat to my surprise. To investigate, I took player game-level logs for every game through 11/05/21. I then constructed a simple binary outcome meas…