With our Ranking the Roster series officially wrapped up, I want to spend some time ruminating on the data that we produced and offer a few tentative conclusions.
Our entry point is the scintillating subject of variable types. Typologies of variable types abound, but I’ll focus on the difference between ordinal and interval variables. Ordinal variables, as the name suggests, indicate order. The outcome of our Ranking the Roster series is an ordinal variable: it consists of Bucks players ranked in an order.
We then assigned each player an integer (1, 2, 3.