Advanced Statistics in the NBA

Ever since the Moneyball era of the Oakland Athletics other teams have tried to find success in Major League Baseball using the same method.  That method is advanced statistics that better show an athlete's worth than based off of traditional statistics.  This has transferred over to the world of professional basketball in the NBA.  Right now, the NBA is going through a 'Moneyball' era of its own trying to find a competitive advantage through adult statistics.  

The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference held at M.I.T illustrated the NBA's new advanced statistics era as 31 of the leagues 32 teams attended.  Only the Los Angeles Lakers were not in attendance.  This data-mining conference illustrates how valuable a player is to winning an NBA championship.  The goal of the conference and sports analytics is to come up with a single calculation to determine who is the best player in their respective sport.

Furthermore, the conference and advanced statistics in general increasingly changes how the public views the athletes.  No longer will athletes be looked at as a person but more as a commodity.