NBA
NBA Advanced Stats: A Field Guide That Has Survived a Decade of Arguments
A field guide to the NBA advanced stats that actually pay rent: true shooting, usage rate, on/off, lineup data, and the all-in-ones — used...
SportsHighLight · Author
Marcus Whitfield
Marcus Whitfield is the SportsHighLight NFL beat lead and Methods desk lead. He has been writing about football analytics for the better part of a decade and signs off on any piece that uses an advanced metric like EPA, CPOE, success rate, or pressure-adjusted EPA. Covers route concepts, coverage charts, and the gap between what a play looked like and what it actually did.
WNBA
Defensive RAPM in the WNBA: Measuring What Counting Stats Miss
Defensive RAPM in the WNBA — what it measures, how it works, where the public versions break, and why every serious women's basketball evaluation...
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...
WNBA
What WNBA On/Off Numbers Catch and What They Still Miss
A WNBA bench wing posts a +14 on/off split across the first 25 games of the season. The analytical Twitter…
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
Playoff Adjustment: How NBA Round 1 Reveals Regular-Season Mirages
A team that posts a +6 net rating across an 82-game regular season looks, on the page, like a contender.…
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...
WNBA
Reading the WNBA Draft Through Analytics: Models, Limits and Real Cases
The WNBA Draft compresses a year of college tape, scouting reports, and analytical projections into a single evening. Twelve top…
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...