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do some of the fun stuff ourselves? Plus AI doesn't know anything that the bracketmakers/Vegas doesn't already know 4. The sum of your final four team seeds should be 6 or greater. Having 4 1-seeds is borrrring

our group as your second bracket. Your 3 month old didn't make those picks. If your kid's not old enough to choose by themself then help them do a mascot bracket. 3. I UsEd CLAudE to FiLl out mY BRackET. Why don't you just let AI eat food and play video games for you. Can we

March Madness Bracket Etiquette 🏀 1. Make one bracket and run with it. Nothing is less interesting than your 25th bracket in your work group that's 97th percentile. If you make 25 brackets and one isn't 95+ percentile that's kinda sad. 2. Don't sneak your kid's bracket into

BREAKING: The Washington Nationals are finalizing a deal to name Paul Toboni their new head of baseball operations, sources tell ESPN. Toboni, 35, rose rapidly to become assistant GM for the Boston Red Sox and is widely regarded as one of the best young executives in MLB.

@burakcankoc Congrats Burak! Huge win for the bulls

Excited to share that I’ve joined the Chicago Bulls as Director of Basketball Research and Development. Grateful for the journey and those who’ve supported me, looking forward to what’s ahead!

remixing this banger ahead of the 2025 draft lottery

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Did some testing of public all-in-one metrics by replicating past work of @Neil_Paine, @ElGee35 and @taylor_snarr but made some slight alterations. The method: merge the all-in-one metric with minutes in year Y+1, sum it up for the team and check the correlation with team win%.

Which NBA player salaries are the best and worst values according to analytics right now? I used @The_BBall_Index all-in-one metric Multi Year LEBRON to find out. It looks at a player's impact over the last 3 seasons Here's a thread🧵breaking down what I found

Enjoyable time with Connor and Grant working through this #BigDataBowl. We attempted to bite off quite a bit -- is it possible to create an overall metric for predictability of play outcome given pre-snap information? Quick hit: more first downs = more unpredictable

Pick whatever metric you want: Wemby's aging curve to start his career is hilarious- just a straight line upwards.

@WMoneyball @taylormetrics Ggplot

@taylormetrics This is a nice way to show distributions - rare to see individual observations combined with some shape. What software did you use to produce it?

Russ peaking as a defensive playmaker at age 36

📊Historic Draft Value By Recruiting Class ▫️Alabama 2017 is BY FAR the GOAT ▫️Florida 2010 highest Expected DV but no hardware (thanks WM) ▫️Actual DV above on near Expected DV = higher title likelihood. ▫️No title-certainty for high level of Actual or Expected DV ▫️Poor USC

Salary vs LEBRON Franz Wagner is producing ALL-NBA impact at Grocery Outlet prices

@aloveCRJ @knarsu3 We call the version that has all the info (and is therefore more predictive) CareerLEBRON... 2025 values coming soon!

@knarsu3 So you are predicting that throughout this season, Derrick White, Franz Wagner, Buddy Hield, and Jarret Allen will all be more impactful player than Kevin Durant and Giannis Antetokounmpo?

Top 20 in LEBRON. One of the things we did was find the optimal amount of regression to the mean (prior) that best predicts LEBRON at the end of the season to be able to run it earlier in the season (for those familiar with RAPM type stats, finding the optimal lambda).

@aloveCRJ @knarsu3 This is a snapshot of how good they have been just this season. If you only know how well they have played this season, this is the best guess of how good they will be at the end of the season. Using more info (previous seasons, age, etc.) would likely match your intuition

Teammates had no idea this BYU punt returner was going to throw up after his touchdown, a breakdown

A reader has mapped out all FBS teams by who their fans think their biggest rival is.

Introducing at @The_BBall_Index: Rotation Role This new data point has been calculated for all 2013-24 players. The options: Star Starter Key Rotation (think playoff rotation) Rotation Garbage Time Teams have different sized rotations, and the calcs recognize that.