The Dallas Mavericks have made quite a few headlines this offseason. Some good, some bad, some falling squarely in the middle.
The DeAndre Jordan fiasco aside though, the Mavericks were able to make some positive moves by injecting some youth, shooting, and perimeter defense into the roster.
NumberFire, a company that “uses the powers of quantitative analysis to be the world’s most accurate predictor of sports performance” offered up their take on the Mavericks’ offseason transactions using their own efficiency metric, which they call nERD.
Basically they took last year’s nERD of every player (sans rookies) with whom the Mavericks parted ways this summer, and compared the results to the nERD of every player the Mavericks acquired to get a net nERD for the franchise.