Average age through the years: NBA playing its young players more
By Dan Feldman
There’s no specific news hook for this post, other than we were talking about it among the TrueHoop Network, and it’s interesting.
Here’s a chart of the NBA’s average age season-by-season.
Seasons are denoted by their second year. For example, the 2010-11 season is shown on the graph as 2011.
The blue line represents the average age of anyone who played that year, and the red line represents a weighted average based on playing time (data from Basketball-Reference).
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It’s interesting how the gap between the weighted average age and the average age has closed.
Here’s a chart that includes the age of the oldest and youngest player each season.
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