Max Carlin

Hi friends, hope you’ve been well. When trying to dive deep into the WNBA, I found a void where I wanted advanced analytics tools to be. I built a site that tries to communicate the previously-unquantified impact in WNBA basketball. This is Help the Helper helpthehelper.vercel.app

I think opponent shot profile is such an important defensive indicator, so I've been trying to develop some rim protection metrics. 2025 Valkyries are giving me some trouble lol

@ApatheticBrent Yep, it's already multi-year to try to address that x.com/maxacarlin/sta…

@maxacarlin How about a multi-year option to potentially dampen noise?

Hi friends, hope you’ve been well. When trying to dive deep into the WNBA, I found a void where I wanted advanced analytics tools to be. I built a site that tries to communicate the previously-unquantified impact in WNBA basketball. This is Help the Helper helpthehelper.vercel.app

Very much crossing my fingers that this site does not crash

@conconwillia Disappearing for two years was all part of the long game

@maxacarlin This is pretty good for your first and only tweet

@LastSunWarrior Just wait until she doesn't have the rookie prior dragging her down

Lacan is 2nd in %ast and 1st in stl% just for those wondering if the numbers are picking up on how good she is.

@ApatheticBrent Rankings are something I will continue to think about, but I am hesitant because I'm not sure I'd think about the values ordinally. Close values should be thought of as predictions where the confidence intervals have a lot of overlap. Appreciate the thoughts!

@ApatheticBrent One stat is never the end all be all, and there is plenty of noise in this one, but I think it is a solid descriptive metric of player impact within a given context...

@klaytheist11 @bjpf_ Of course! Let me know if anything really feels like it’s missing or would make the site better in the course of using it

@maxacarlin @bjpf_ Dude this is great thank you

@_punkcouple_ If I wanted a more predictive stat, I think I’d have to consider it more strongly

@_punkcouple_ Thank you! The base RAPM model is multi-year since single-year is crazy noisy with W possession totals. Definitely considered using a box score prior, but I wanted to avoid it for philosophical reasons and felt good about the smell test results without it...

@zach_idiot We can worry when this account starts tweeting positively about Jaylen Brown

@sportsdyke Hope it’s useful, and let me know if there’s anything you want added or changed as you use it

@maxacarlin you are a godsend thank you so much

@bjpf_ Except I’m never watching AAU film again

@maxacarlin and suddenly it's 2020 again

@TonyREast Hey, Tony :)

@maxacarlin OMG!! Hi!!!

@polarfall Thank you, my friend!

@maxacarlin Congrats to comeback,max.

3. I’m not a data scientist. My qualifications for building this site are that I wanted to, had the time, and know a thing or two about basketball (plus what a ridge regression is). I put a lot of effort into making sure everything is right, but take it with a grain of salt

2. wRAPM will inherently be noisy. I’ve employed some techniques to try to stabilize it, but the WNBA season is short. I’m still undecided on how I’ll present in-season data, but wRAPM comes with all the usual caveats about impact metrics plus seasons (and games) are shorter