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.…
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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...
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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.
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All-Star Voting and What Analytics Actually Wants From Player Evaluation
Every February, NBA All-Star voting produces a familiar two-act argument. Act one is the fan vote, which rewards popularity, market…
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OKC Thunder’s 2025 NBA Title: How the Underlying Numbers Were Right All Along
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander walked off the Paycom Center floor with the Bill Russell trophy in his hands at 11:47 PM local…
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NBA All-Star 2025: The New Format and What Analytics Could Salvage
Stephen Curry hit a half-court shot in the second quarter of the All-Star Game tournament final at Chase Center on…