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"The overall contribution of the EPV project remains unknown; it is in its infancy and is by no means going to "revolutionize" basketball analysis. But perhaps it will eventually fuel a new supplementary approach to assessing performance in the NBA. Maybe it won't, and its contribution will be less about figuring out true player value and more about simply raising awareness about the kinds of thinking, computation, and analysis that are required to really generate new basketball insights going forward. For years, we have talked about "advanced stats" when what we were really talking about was slightly savvier arithmetic. That's going to change, whether we want it to or not. Don't get me wrong - metrics like points per possession and PER have significantly improved the analytical discourse surrounding basketball. Still, there's a tremendous amount left to do. And given these vast haystacks of newfangled player tracking data, we're in desperate need of similarly newfangled needle-extraction techniques."