The Garbage-Time Tax: Why Net Rating Needs a Red Pen
Net rating looks clean until the end of the bench starts turning a 14-point game into a fake referendum.
Sports analytics, stats and data-driven game analysis.
Basketball analytics, advanced stats, lineup data, and the work of reading the modern NBA. True shooting, on/off splits, the all-in-ones — used the way analysts who watch the games actually use them.
Net rating looks clean until the end of the bench starts turning a 14-point game into a fake referendum.
Usage rate is not a halo. Sometimes it explains the burden. Sometimes it hides the mess.
A guide to reading player stats past the box score: efficiency, role, opponent quality, on/off splits, and the all-in-ones — using a 2005 Iverson...
The pace-and-space era, the metrics it forced into existence, the metrics it broke, and how to read a 2026 box score without 1996 instincts.
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...
Lineup synergy — what it actually measures, where it comes from, how the public data captures it, and the math of why some five-man...
The hot-hand fallacy — what the original research claimed, what the corrected research shows, where the question still has uncertainty, and how to write...
Playoff scaling — which regular-season numbers survive May, which collapse, and how to read postseason performance through structural translation rather than narrative inflation.