{"id":1519,"date":"2014-05-30T02:13:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T06:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/sneaker-blog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2015-12-17T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T19:26:40","slug":"what-the-lebron-11-right-vs-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/news\/what-the-lebron-11-right-vs-left\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Lebron 11 &#8211; Right vs. Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, the Nike SB &#8220;What The Dunk&#8221; sparked a\u00a0debate for the ages:\u00a0 Right vs. Left.\u00a0 Which has the\u00a0better colorways?\u00a0 The debate only intensified when Nike moved the concept over to their basketball line in 2012.\u00a0 Today, the rivalry has reached fever pitch, with rumors that our nation&#8217;s political parties will cease using terms &#8220;right&#8221; and &#8220;left&#8221;, lest they draw the ire of voters on the wrong side of the sneakerhead aisle. \u00a0 The only debate which even dares to continue to exist is, of course, the <a href=\"https:\/\/var\/app\/current\/news-tmp-0801.youtube.com\/watch?v=N5Y3dAS-5u8\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-=\"\">Left Twix vs. Right Twix<\/a> saga.\u00a0 Thankfully, we don&#8217;t have to choose sides because we only eat mini-ice cream Twix which come one to a pack . . . but we&#8217;ve digressed.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reading a <a href=\"http:\/\/sneakernews.com\/2014\/04\/01\/complete-breakdown-every-colorway-nike-lebron-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-=\"\">recent Sneaker News post<\/a> listing the many colorways on the What The LeBron 11, we decided to throw our hat, er, feet, in the ring and try to settle\u00a0this argument the only way we know how &#8212; with data. \u00a0To be clear, we&#8217;re now talking about the left vs. right shoe debate, and not chocolates.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Methodology<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The great debate will be settled by resell price.\u00a0 To do that, we set out to calculate the weighted average deadstock price for each shoe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using the Sneaker News article and making a few judgement calls, we identified the historical LeBron&#8217;s referenced in the What the LeBron 11<\/li>\n<li>Any parts that referenced an entire series, as opposed to a\u00a0specific model, were removed<\/li>\n<li>The Stewie Griffin 6 was removed because there were no DS pairs sold in the past year, and only one used, which went for $15k<\/li>\n<li>All parts remaining on each shoe were counted:\u00a0 the left has\u00a012 parts; the right 10<\/li>\n<li>The average deadstock price for each shoe was calculated using our standard Campless methodology (past 12 months, DS, mens, remove statistical outliers)<\/li>\n<li>Finally, a weighted average deadstock price for each shoe was calculated by\u00a0adding up the avg ds price for each of the individual pairs, and dividing by the number of unique parts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=9&amp;pub=5575084045&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5337472904&amp;customid=&amp;icep_uq=Lebron+James+11&amp;icep_sellerId=&amp;icep_ex_kw=&amp;icep_sortBy=12&amp;icep_catId=15709&amp;icep_minPrice=&amp;icep_maxPrice=&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-=\"\">Find Your Favorite Lebron 11 on eBay<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sneakerheaddata.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/what-the-lebron-11-campless-breakdown-042814-v2.jpg\" data-mce-=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"StockX Image\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1388\" src=\"http:\/\/sneakerheaddata.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/what-the-lebron-11-campless-breakdown-042814-v2.jpg\" alt=\"What The Lebron 11 Campless breakdown 042814 v2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-mce-=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key Insights \/ Weighted Average Results<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Left shoe:<\/strong>\u00a0 $729<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right shoe:<\/strong> $815<\/li>\n<li><strong>The pair:<\/strong>\u00a0 $768<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that settles it right? \u00a0The right shoe is better than the left shoe by almost 12%, and better than the entire pair by 6%.<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast. \u00a0Consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Left Shoe Considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Stewie Griffin was removed which, if included, more than doubles the left shoe&#8217;s weighted average.\u00a0 The highly sought after Fruity Pebbles 4&#8217;s are referenced on three different parts, but only counted once<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right Shoe Considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0 The right shoe references last years What The MVP Lebrons, which by itself has an average DS price of $2,453.\u00a0 The entire Dunkman series is referenced, all of which are GRs, but we&#8217;re not using series.\u00a0 Most importantly, the insole of the right shoe has the Lebron &#8220;LJ&#8221; logo and, really, how do you quantify the entire brand?\u00a0 That&#8217;s not our bag, so we&#8217;ll just footnote it for you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pair Considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Big Bangs are referenced on both shoes.\u00a0 And, we haven&#8217;t even scratched the surface on total square inches by colorway referenced . . . but that will have to wait until\u00a0we get our hands on a pair (size 10.5, by the way, now accepting oops) to take precise measurements with a 3-D scanner or something<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ok, so maybe we&#8217;ve only fanned the fire\u00a0on the eternal flame that is the left vs. right shoe argument, and have done little to solve it. \u00a0But wasn&#8217;t that fun? \u00a0Can&#8217;t wait to do it again with the\u00a0What The Jordan 11&#8217;s.\u00a0 Oh, you didn&#8217;t know there&#8217;s a &#8220;What The&#8221; Jordan coming?\u00a0 I guess you should get your release info from somewhere more reliable . . . we only serve data here.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime we&#8217;re gonna go eat some mini-ice cream Twix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=9&amp;pub=5575084045&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5337472904&amp;customid=&amp;icep_uq=Lebron+James+11&amp;icep_sellerId=&amp;icep_ex_kw=&amp;icep_sortBy=12&amp;icep_catId=15709&amp;icep_minPrice=&amp;icep_maxPrice=&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-=\"\">Find Your Favorite Lebron 11 on eBay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, the Nike SB &#8220;What The Dunk&#8221; sparked a\u00a0debate for the ages:\u00a0 Right vs. Left.\u00a0 Which has the\u00a0better colorways?\u00a0 The debate only intensified when Nike moved the concept over to their basketball line in 2012.\u00a0 Today, the rivalry has reached fever pitch, with rumors that our nation&#8217;s political parties will cease using terms &#8220;right&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"brands":[],"series":[],"verticals":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What The Lebron 11 - Right vs. Left? 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