Ben Alamar

Top 10 Net Points/100 Possessions according to ESPN Analytics & @deanolytics.bsky.social
Interesting to see Victor 10th overall, but dominating on the defensive end.
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Went to see Evita with a friend. 20 minutes in he leaned over and asked “when are they going to start talking?”

Seemed like an odd decision for sure

Spurs rushed that possession and it cost them

Curry was incredible, but the Spurs gave the game away by not using more of the Shot Clock in their 2nd to last possession. Didn’t need to shoot with that much time left.

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3 of the top 4 active scorers drafted by Sam Presti.

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Wizards had this one put away several times — but not quite.

One more crazy early season Wemby stat:
Wemby is creating more shots for his teammates per 100 possessions (14.3) than Steph (14.1).

Both are significantly outpaced of course by Jokic (35.5) and CP3 (37.5)

min 30 shots created

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Obscured by Wemby's magical performance, Stephon Castle had the third best game of his career last night, adding +5.8 net points despite going 5/10 from the line.

It becomes his best game if he makes 7/10.

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At 39 yrs old, Chris Paul led the NBA last season in passes to shooters per 100 possession at 32.6 (min 1000 shots created). He starts off this season defending his crown, creating 13 shots in 15 min or 44.8 shots per 100. (Harden not far behind with 43.1 shots/100).

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Drake Maye out here doing Josh Allen things

Did you do this on a pbp level or in aggregate? If you do it at the pbp level you can control for the average performance of the tackle and see how they do at different depths

Now correlate with run/pass win rate :)

Opinion | The W.N.B.A. Is Making More Money Than Ever. Why Aren’t the Players? (Gift Article) Other professional sports leagues give their players roughly 50 percent of the revenue, but the W.N.B.A. players get less than 10 percent.

Wrote this for the New York Times today (hope this link works!)

W.N.B.A. is doing immensely well! Time to pay the players!!

Thanks to Sara Chodosh for asking me to write this (helping with the writing) and making the cool graphics!!

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As everyone has said but it's still worth saying again: this is incredible from Collier. Holy moly.

Kuminga is the living embodiment of the sunk cost fallacy. #lightyears

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Ha, ha, This didn't age well.

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By ESPN's Net Points wins on Total (espnanalytics.com/wnba-net-pts) and Collier wins on a per possession basis (espnanalytics.com/wnba-net-pts80). If Collier doesn't miss games w/the ankle, she wins on total running away.

For the record.

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JJ is just a winner so there was no difference in the Bears win probability either way. :)

Matt Prater looks like a dad on the sidelines of his kids soccer game.

Model recommendation: STRONG GO.