Staff
Producer: Dean Oliver
Dean has helped coordinate the development of multimedia intranets
for Philips Multimedia and
for the environmental consulting firm, Environ. Other than
that, he's pretty much faked it.
Writer: Dean Oliver
Dean has been writing about his research in sports since
1986, including some work for Basketball Digest
and the unpublished book,
Basketball Hoopla, which is reprinted in
its entirety here. He has also been a prolific contributor
to numerous scientific journals in risk analysis and
environmental modeling, but no one reads those things.
Art Design: Dean Oliver
Dean has been fiddling with art ever since he nearly
got thrown out of fingerpainting class in kindergarten
for "using the world as my canvas". Finally, someone
showed him Adobe Photoshop
and that made all those images in his head a little
easier to look at.
Programmer: Dean Oliver
Dean has been formally trained in exactly one computer language, C,
which means that he has formally forgotten exactly one
language, C. However, in its absence, he has become quite
proficient in Java, Javascript, Visual Basic, Fortran, and
Pascal (and SQL, if you call that a language). He has written at least 1000 programs in various languages,
some of which have been many thousands of lines long and
most of which have actually worked. He occasionally
produces useful programs that can be downloaded from
this site by maniacal readers who cannot just sit back
and read -- nooo, they
have to actually check the calculations in the journal, then
criticize when the program has a slight bug.
Marketing Director: Dean Oliver
Marketing basically means blabbing to the world that you
have a good product and convincing the world that you
should be paid for it. The blabbing is done, the convincing
is in progress.
(Updated 5/2005)
All those responsibilities above paid off to the point that
I now work in the NBA supporting a coaching staff and management.
But I don't have time to keep this site up.
Sorry.
Publication Schedule
(updated 5/2005)
Rarely anymore with my job in the NBA.
Note that no hard copies of articles are available by contacting me.
If you want some, feel free to print the documents through your browser.
Postscript versions of the
Basketball Hoopla are
available.
Finally, I should say that I have great appreciation for the
many people who have written in to support this work and
which is leading toward the publication of a book. I will certainly
let people know as this comes about.
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