The piece Eric and I recently posted on Robert Covington’s streakiness — or lack thereof — led to an excellent comment thread covering many interesting issues. I thought I’d try to summarize and address some of those issues here.
As a reminder, in the piece we tested Robert Covington versus other players who shoot three-pointers about as often and as accurately as Cov. In separate tests of streakiness on an across-game, across-month, and across-year basis, we found no evidence that Cov is an especially streaky shooter. Yet in our poll of thousands of fans, we found that 92% perceived Cov as someone who shoots streakily.