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...
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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.
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...
WNBA
Reading the Women NCAA Tournament Through Analytics
The Women NCAA Tournament has, across the last five years, become the cleanest case study in sports of an analytical…