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Ben Alamar

@BenCAlamar

Author of Sports Analytics: A Guide for Managers, Coaches, and Other Decision Makers (https://t.co/03ftJK8CTA). he/him

Austin, TX Katılım Eylül 2009
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Wharton Moneyball@WMoneyball·
Today's show is available in Podcast Form NOW! Ben Alamar (@BenCAlamar) talks Wemby's playoff performance, NBA draft evals, team-building strategies Hot Hand | Manager impact in Baseball | Sports Unpredictability Listen HERE: 👇👇👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
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Ben Alamar@BenCAlamar·
@SethWalder Alternatively it means that the league is biased towards giving big contracts to certain positions regardless of actual value. Or some combination of the two.
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Seth Walder@SethWalder·
This is the 2025 version of this chart (not sure if Ben updated this year) but it's one of my favorite football charts, period. This demonstrates the league does not sufficiently price in positional value in the draft. If it did, these lines would be roughly the same.
Computer Cowboy@benbbaldwin

Annual update of my post on draft curves. This uses 2nd contract value to estimate the value of each draft pick, including by position. This update incorporates the 2020 draft class, which saw some huge hits at WR including Lamb, Jefferson, and Aiyuk. opensourcefootball.com/posts/2023-02-…

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Dean Oliver
Dean Oliver@DeanO_Lytics·
This is the season version of what we do on a daily basis to measure the value of players in different categories. If you don't like it, blame me espn.com/nba/story/_/id…
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Brian Burke
Brian Burke@bburkeESPN·
I'm releasing a demo of a clock management simulator app for a limited time. This is something I built for myself to build up my clock management intuitions when I'm on our Playbook simulcast for MNF. espnanalytics.com/clock_sim/
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Dean Oliver@DeanO_Lytics·
Jayson Tatum's return effectively increases the Celtics' chances at the 2-seed. There probably will be some time needed to get used to him, as based on the work @BenCAlamar and I did at last year's Sloan Conference (whose 2026 version starts tomorrow). espn.com/nba/story/_/id…
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Ben Alamar@BenCAlamar·
@Rylan_Stiles I was working with the Thunder when they drafted DeVon Hardin - 18 years ago - I get the feeling that he is not gonna pan out
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Ron Yurko
Ron Yurko@Stat_Ron·
Great questions/points! - we dont know when the snap is supposed to happen (relative to start of motion), BUT we guess it given context (down, play clock, etc) & motion type (using NextGen Stats tracking data) - QBs / teams that vary more around this guess are more unpredictable
Kurt Warner@kurt13warner

Explain this to me a little more in depth… what does this mean? How is this correlated to each given motion? Do they sometimes let player come to stop? Snap the ball early - whatever that means? How do u know where QB is supposed to snap ball & how do u determine unpredictability?

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Dean Oliver
Dean Oliver@DeanO_Lytics·
Further advances on our ESPNAnalytics WNBA boxscore pages. - Now there are quick links to other games on the same day. - At the bottom, there is a breakdown of how players got net points - turnovers, rebounding, scoring, etc. espnanalytics.com/wnba-box?id=20…
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Dean Oliver@DeanO_Lytics·
The F5 and @owenlhjphillips have done a number of interviews with people who have made a difference in basketball analytics. His latest is with Seth Partnow (with links to others at the bottom, including one I did). Always interesting reads. thef5.substack.com/p/shooting-the…
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Dean Oliver@DeanO_Lytics·
Mike Tannenbaum is talking on Get Up about how it's important for Matthew Stafford to practice with his receivers. @BenCAlamar and I looked at the value of familiarity between passers and shooters in basketball (for #research-papers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sloansportsconference.com/conference/202…) and that value is BIG.
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Wharton Moneyball@WMoneyball·
Today's show is available in Podcast Form NOW! Topics Include: Ben Alamar (@BenCAlamar) discussing NBA Finals and Clutch Play NHL Finals | Pitching Control vs Velocity | Colorado Rockies | Aaron Judge | French Open Listen HERE: 👇👇👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
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Caitlin Cooper
Caitlin Cooper@C2_Cooper·
Hello, I talked into a microphone with @ZachLowe_NBA about the NBA Finals If that interests you, you should probably listen:
Zach Lowe@ZachLowe_NBA

New Zach Lowe Show! NY fires Thibs, @C2_Cooper on how Indy can chase an upset, then Jeff Green + @KendrickPerkins -- Thunder alums traded for each other -- reminisce about their time in OKC and what it means to see the franchise back in the Finals: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4KtTtQ… YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=bV4OAp…

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