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[M.H.C.]

Did you see the article that some dude researched his stats and showed that the better the strip clubs in the city he plays in the better he performs statistically?

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I analyzed James Harden's performance in every NBA city to see if there is a correlation between his box score and the city's average strip club rating.
u/AngryCentrist3d
Everyone knows James Harden has a particular affinity for the Canadian ballet, aka strip clubs. After the Rocket's dismal performance in Miami last week, and the city's reputation for high quality tit-shacks, I became increasingly curious to see just how much James Harden's vice affects his game. So here we are, I spent the better part of the week on this, hope y'all enjoy!
Hypothesis: James Harden's box score declines in cities with high quality strip clubs
Test: Analyze James Harden's performance in every NBA city and correlate with those cities' reputation for strip clubs to see if there is any discernible relationship.

Methodology/Steps:

• First I extracted all of James Harden's game logs for the past 4 seasons from Basketball Reference, cleaned up the data a bit (a bunch), and appended it into a single worksheet.
• Next, I filtered out all Home games and all games Harden was inactive or DNP. For the purpose of this analysis we did not look at home games.
• Poor Performances were determined by variances in 6 stats: Points, FG%, 3PT%, FT%, Assists and Turnovers. For each of these stats I compared Harden's overall season average to the city-specific season average. I identified 2 categories of poor performances:

1. Sub-Par - Harden performed WORSE than season average, and
2. Very Sub-Par - Harden performed 20%+ WORSE than season average.

• I analyzed his poor performances across each of the NBA’s 28 different cities (did not look at home games so no Houston, there are 2 teams in LA, and I distinguished between Brooklyn and NYC = 28 cities).
• City Strip Club Rating was determined by the average google review rating for the first 10 strip clubs in each city based on the google search “[CITY] Strip Clubs” (e.g., “Detroit Strip clubs”). Yes, this did involve me making like 30+ searches for strip clubs on my cpu...
• Finally, I put the City Strip Club Rating into the pivoted game log data, performed a regression analysis and visualized it into charts.

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Too much time on his hands

 

[Mr. Met]

Bingo. Yet Dolan keeps allowing him to make basketball decisions.

 

[dik cashmere]

Steve Mills is trying to justify his job when he is clearly the issue as well as Dolan

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

This is the second season the Cavs haven't had Lebron yet Coon Smith act like it's been years...If,you're upset about your team that's fine but to act like the Cavs are the same team as last year is ridiculous..

The Cavs may not go the playoffs but they'll have a better record what they had last season...unless,the stupid owner decides to tank again.

 

[VWchrisATL]

That apparently doesn’t matter.

Smh. This ain’t on Fiz....

 

[dik cashmere]

Mills has presided over the arrivals and departures of five Knicks coaches. His overall record as team president is 165-337, including 48-126 since taking the job over from Phil Jackson in 2017.

 

[Gemini]

 

[Complex]

The Snickers pretty much have to fire him now. GM/President is trying to blame the coach, even though he got a wack ass team in free agency. They got four fuckin power forwards for 40 minutes and the only people who play defense are Frankie, Morris twin and Robinson.

 

[dik cashmere]

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

We be fighting

Keep it up it'll click

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Corey Maggette Defends Clippers' Load Management, Would've Saved My Career!

Corey Maggette says the Clippers are doing a "phenomenal job" by giving Kawhi Leonard load management days.

www.tmz.com

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

Austin Carr with the truth....

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

Cavs need a center badly...

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

Great game. @jack walsh13


We play yall again Sunday in Cleveland.....

 

[KingTaharqa]

Big win for the Lake Show tonight over a pretty good Suns team. Kuzma woke up tonight and pretty much won the game in the 4th. Vogel getting it done so far.

 

[jack walsh13]

Great game. @jack walsh13


We play yall again Sunday in Cleveland.....

Yeah good game. Lucky to come out with the win.

 

[jack walsh13]

 

[jack walsh13]

Yup. Shit is ridiculous. They gotta get Dolan's ass outta there.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

I'm looking for that hate and I hope that he gets injured energy towards Trae Young coming up soon
Looking for that consistency for the showmanship lol

 

[jack walsh13]

Cavs need a center badly...

Yeah Embiid dog walked Thompson. Shit was too easy.

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

Yeah good game. Lucky to come out with the win.

All,I have to say people better not be surprised next season..The Cavs will have cap room and depending how the lottery goes we most likely pick up a center,if we're in the top 10. Anything above that the pick will belong to the Pelicans.

Yeah Embiid dog walked Thompson. Shit was too easy.

Tristan hold his own but we need a center that can score and defend consistently....While,Im happy that the coaches let Tristan to score more he still struggles against taller centers..

We got taller centers but the both of them are hurt...Henson got hurt in the second game and Zizic been injured. It probably wouldn't matter,since Zizic is slow footed.

 

[M.H.C.]

Trae Young....Respect

 

[Duece]

 

[Simply Sickenin']

These are the 4th quarters when we miss Jimmy Buckets the most.

 

[Complex]

Trae Young....Respect

That trade looks like a win win for Dallas and Atlanta

 

[Mask]

East teams that have me wondering wtf going on

Brooklyn
New York
Detroit

West teams

Nola
Portland (to a pernt)

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

Awwww
Refs didn't reward Lou Williams with a million free throws like he's Jordan in his prime?

Different story when that happens

 

[Complex]

I had no clue Ben McLemore was still in the league

The Rockets players past seven are terrible

Kawhi has become a much better playmaker than he used to be

 

[Llano]

Beverly has turned into a very overrated player. When he came in the league he was a true hustle & effort player. Defensively dude just does tries to get under star players skin & fouls every time.

 

[Llano]

6 in row for the Rockets, finally playing some good defense. Harden scoring 47 on Kawhi & fouling ass Beverly

 

[KingTaharqa]

Kawhi has become a much better playmaker than he used to be

He's definitely worked on his passing and vision.

 

[Complex]

Beverly has turned into a very overrated player. When he came in the league he was a true hustle & effort player. Defensively dude just does tries to get under star players skin & fouls every time.

I think that injuries and age are starting to take it's toll.

He's more bark than bite now.

 

[spider705]

Crickets, huh? Ok...

 

[REDLINE]

Beverly has turned into a very overrated player. When he came in the league he was a true hustle & effort player. Defensively dude just does tries to get under star players skin & fouls every time.

I think that injuries and age are starting to take it's toll.

He's more bark than bite now.

Agreed, I admired how he played good defense and got after it in the past. Now he’s just coming across as a bitch.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

He's definitely worked on his passing and vision.

He's grown every year.