Methods
Sports Analytics, Honestly: The Working Primer
A working primer on sports analytics for fans who have already watched a thousand games — the metrics that survive arguments, the places they...
SportsHighLight · Author
Marcus Whitfield
Marcus Whitfield is the SportsHighLight NBA byline for basketball analytics, player-value arguments, and box-score skepticism. The byline is maintained through the site editorial workflow: claims are checked against public stat sources, official NBA data where useful, and historical context before publication.
NBA
Lineup Synergy: The Math of Why Some Five-Man NBA Units Click
Lineup synergy — what it actually measures, where it comes from, how the public data captures it, and the math of why some five-man...
NBA
The Hot-Hand Fallacy: Forty Years of Argument, Then a Quiet Reversal
The hot-hand fallacy — what the original research claimed, what the corrected research shows, where the question still has uncertainty, and how to write...
NBA
Playoff Scaling: Which Regular-Season NBA Numbers Survive May
Playoff scaling — which regular-season numbers survive May, which collapse, and how to read postseason performance through structural translation rather than narrative inflation.
WNBA
WNBA Salary Cap and Performance: The Math of the New CBA
WNBA salary cap and on-court performance — what the math actually shows, how the new CBA changes the picture, where the cap still creates...