Playoff Math

Longtime NBA advanced stats maven Roland Beech provides The Stein Line community with some new analytical points of emphasis from NBA first-round playoff action

Trying something new in this edition of the Friday Freebie.

Roland Beech is the early 2000s founder of 82games.com and ranks as one of the pioneers in the NBA advanced stats space, having emerged as the league's first so-called "analytics coach" by earning a spot on the bench with the Dallas Mavericks, working his way up to a vice president of basketball…