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John Hollinger (born May 17, 1971) is the former Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and current Senior NBA columnist at The Athletic. Prior to December 2012, he was an analyst and writer for ESPN, primarily covering the NBA. Hollinger grew up in Mahwah, New Jersey, and is a 1993 graduate of the University of Virginia.
Hollinger developed the website Alleyoop in 1996, initially as a hobby and sounding board for his musings on the game. Touting the site as "The Basketball Page for Thinking Fans", Hollinger followed in the footsteps of noted analysts Dean Oliver and Bob Bellotti in a quest for the ultimate basketball statistic. During Alleyoop's early years, Hollinger experimented with offensive and defensive ratings (points created and allowed per 100 possessions) in much the same way as Oliver, as a means of quantifying a player's overall contribution to his team. While the methods were hardly groundbreaking, Hollinger's writing style and incisive commentary caught the eye of such industry luminaries as the magazine Web and The Wall Street Journal.
Hollinger spent the next three years as the sports editor at OregonLive.com, developing an intimate understanding of the inner workings of the NBA, both as a game and a business. It was during his OregonLive years that Hollinger developed his Player Efficiency Rating (PER), a figure that attempts to combine all of a player's contributions into one number. After his stint in Portland, Hollinger was hired as the basketball editor at SI.com, Sports Illustrated's online sister site. In 2002, Hollinger released the first Pro Basketball Prospectus which was his first work published in print.
Hollinger has authored three more Prospectuses, now called Pro Basketball Forecasts. He left Sports Illustrated to write for ESPN.com in the summer of 2005, and his weekly columns were available through their "insider" subscription service. Additionally, Hollinger wrote for the New York Sun's sports section. Hollinger has appeared every year on the basketball analytics panel, at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.[1]
JohnHollinger (born May 17, 1971) is the former Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association...
Hollinger may refer to: Hollinger, Nebraska, a community in the United States Hollinger Inc., the Canadian holding company that owns the Sun-Times Media...
schoolteacher JohnHollinger and Sarah Sutherland. With his friend, a professional prospector, Alex Gillies– for whom Gillies Lake is named –Hollinger travelled...
Kristaps Porziņģis, albeit with better ball-handling and passing skills. JohnHollinger of The Athletic described his game as a combination of Ralph Sampson...
minutes AST/TO: assist to turnover ratio PER: Player Efficiency Rating: JohnHollinger's Player Efficiency Rating PIR: Performance Index Rating: Euroleague's...
Efficiency Rating (PER). The per-minute rating was created by JohnHollinger. Hollinger states, "The PER sums up all a player's positive accomplishments...
analytics-based approach to sports-writing is owed to Rob Neyer and JohnHollinger, but he attributes his journalism skills to his beat-writer days. In...
from the original on October 25, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2013. Hollinger, John (September 17, 2012). "OKC Thunder: 2012–13 roster". ESPN Insider....
The player efficiency rating (PER) is JohnHollinger's all-in-one basketball rating, which attempts to collect or boil down all of a player's contributions...
of the Memphis Grizzlies. On December 13, 2012, ESPN announced that JohnHollinger was hired by the Grizzlies as their new vice president of basketball...
Murray was NBA's most impactful rookie". Retrieved 18 May 2023. Staff, JohnHollinger and The Athletic. "Banchero, Kessler among NBA All-Rookie Team". The...
from the original on September 29, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2017. JohnHollinger (Oct 7, 2022). "The Wembanyama Effect: How the buzz about Victor will...
Efficiency Rating (PER) rating stat, which was created by sports writer JohnHollinger, when he worked at ESPN. The stat's formula is: (Points + Rebounds +...
from the original on December 22, 2019. Retrieved February 4, 2020. JohnHollinger (April 24, 2010). "Roy returns for Trail Blazers". ESPN.com. Archived...
the apparent "Sports Illustrated cover jinx" and the "Madden Curse". JohnHollinger has an alternative name for the phenomenon of regression to the mean:...
is remembered as one of the greatest plays in NBA history. In 2010, JohnHollinger of ESPN ranked Jordan's last shot as a Bulls player fourth among 50...
practitioners includes, but is not limited to, the following individuals: JohnHollinger authored four books in the Pro Basketball Forecast/Prospectus series...
backup quarterback Gary Kubiak) for projecting future performance. JohnHollinger developed a similar system for basketball players in his Pro Basketball...
basketball. The result was similar. Another noted basketball statistician, JohnHollinger, uses a similar Pythagorean formula, except with 16.5 as the exponent...
then-head coach Dave Joerger and current VP of Basketball Operations JohnHollinger. The team posted a 106–58 regular season record from 2012 thru the 2013–14...
between these two teams, with the Rockets winning the first meeting. JohnHollinger of ESPN.com ranked this as the greatest playoff series in NBA history...
included Steven Goldman, Thomas Hauser, Sean Lahman, Tim Marchman, and JohnHollinger. Its crossword puzzle, edited by Peter Gordon, was called one of the...
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