The Washington Wizards announced four new hires for Scott Brooks’ coaching staff, including Dean Oliver, an analytics expert who has front office experience but is new to the coaching ranks.
Oliver’s last NBA job was the director of analytics and player personnel for the Sacramento Kings in 2015. He has also held front office jobs with the Denver Nuggets and Seattle SuperSonics and wrote the book “Basketball on Paper,” which he promotes as the basketball equivalent of “Moneyball.”
A statistician, Oliver invented the “offensive efficiency rating” and “defensive efficiency rating” that are now widely used and referred to on websites like Basketball Reference.