Are they? Or do they get those numbers from league sources, then come up with different "advanced stats" to try and interpret what that data means?
I'm honestly curious because a lot of these "analytics" crowd folks seem to just use data given to input into various equations and then put their own interpretation on what that data represents.
If they are getting it from a league source then they are at Berkshire’s level and are getting data that is basically reserved for teams. I forget what the app is he has access to but if you listen to any of the PDOcasts with him he goes into pretty good detail about it.
Fact is most of these guys (see Jesse) are watching tons of repetitive game plays to back up the majority of this data unless they are basically at the point where they are going to be hired by the league or one of the big networks.
I mean, it isn’t like Natural Stat Trick just gets the numbers created for themselves. The majority of the writers that are amateur analytics guys have to actually log this stuff and then run it through their models. Otherwise they’d basically have no reason to exist. Sure there are people like Micah getting attention off of visualizations of the data.