XLookup is a game changer. That and PIVOTBY have made life so much easier.

The bible still teaches VLookup.

My condolences to your dms

girl you’re braver than me to leave this comment they’re about to be in your DMs

As a girlie, love when I find another girlie in boy dominated subs lol 

Checkmate eye test nerds

I’ve just always thought that basketball was for like athletic, ungeeky black guys who want to be a part of analytics but just couldn’t make it doing math. So they decided to put running and jumping into the equation. That’s always how I felt

Idk man, somehow “the eye test is for black dudes who are good enough to make the league” just doesn’t bite as hard

Black people being athletic but dumb has never been said, you’re right

That they thought analytics was for geeky black guys who couldn’t play? I’d be super down with a stat nerd stereotype.

A lot of reddit doesn’t remember Josh Hart scamming a random dude for a switch when they were in high demand.

Tbf the switch seller was weird, but Josh did rip him off and only corrected it when he got publically shamed when it went viral

Yeah he’s rapidly going from one of the most likable in the league to one of the most clueless and arrogant. Fuck this guy

He’s a dude who drinks breast milk and sticks his thumb up players butts during celebrations, of course he is going to want bible study in public classrooms!

I can only speak to my own experience but, having been in a fairly small class with Mikal at Nova, he actually gave the impression that he cared. Donte DiVincenzo on the other hand…

This isn’t true of professors and I have no idea where the claim is coming from. I mean, the foundational aspect of “science” is that it’s grounded in empiricism. I’ve never met a professor who preferred vibes to evidence (I spent almost no time during higher education around those in the arts where subjectivity is the whole point, but I spent lots around those focused on the disciplines you mentioned). Sociology and psychology have also become more and more grounded in empiricism. Shit like the Stanford prison study is well in the past. Those disciplines rely on things like double blind studies specifically because of how important they view removing bias from the equation when drawing conclusions.

Jobs in higher education basically require being published in academic journals, and those require peer-review, and that requires that assertions made are supported by actual evidence and an explanation of how that evidence was generated. Even history has become far more data driven than it used to be. And even where it isn’t, everything I said about the need for tangible evidence to support assertions stands. You’re just flat out wrong about this.

Who upvotes this kind of garbage? “A lot of Ivy League professors” lmao gtfo

a lot of Ivy League professors in Sociology/Political Science/History have very similar viewpoints regarding analytics.

You have no idea what you are talking about

Then former players would consistently make good coaches/GMs. But reality is they typically dont

Sociology and political science are social sciences not humanities, you moron lol. This is a great reminder that the first comments are the ones most likely to be upvoted on Reddit.

My favorite is when people say basketball isn’t a math equation when it’s literally about who can add 1, 2, and 3 to their score the most times.

Where does “The Diff” factor in here?

Makes perfect sense that it came from a religious dude too lmao

100% but there are also things like leadership, toughness and competitiveness that are hard to see in analytics but you can see when they play.

Nope, it’s just a coincidence that all the super successful teams are analytically driven

Analytically, how great is “cash considerations”?

On the flip side, you have “just watch da gamezzz” ppl calling Jaylen Brown a superstar MVP candidate so idk 

Have always figured that response was taken wildly out of context here.

I highly doubt Atkinson was literally saying that his team won the game in any shape or form Lol.

He was much more likely making a point/emphasis/comment w/e you wanna call it about how the Cavs were leading most of the time and chocking away huge 10-20+ point leads. You know, the exact same thing that happened to the Spurs.

In the context of the actual series and the Knicks play-off run as a whole, it’s really not some ridicules thing to say that you felt you’re team was doing everything better “analytically” or w/e and couldn’t figure out the answer as to why they kept chocking leads or what kind of black magic the Knicks were kicking into for their entire play-off run to keep doing it to multiple teams over and over again.

Knicks this year were just one of the most clutch teams most people will ever see and thats the type of mental X factor that does break analytics

Everyone is using statistics of some kind. Nobody is watching literally every NBA game, with enough attention on every player, to comprehensively rank players. There’s no getting around it.

This part. It’s too tedious simply watching one player’s possessions each game let alone dozens like people claim they do. At best, they watch highlights which are 5-10 secs and they show only the good stuff. 

Another thing I hate about “watch da gamezzz” is that it assumes the other guy just isn’t watching the game too lol. 

Two people could watch the exact same player in the exact same game and have complete different takeaways. We’re all prone to biases. Unless you’re some sort of paid analytical scout, your “eye test” is just not worth a damn. At least not any more than mine is. 

Absolutely. Pretty much all the advanced stats use on-off data in their formulas…some stats eliminate the box score entirely. 

Iirc, advanced stats had Jokic as a net positive on D which obviously doesn’t align with what we saw/see. 

But like I said, they use lineup data and Denver’s defense did get worse when Jokic was on the bench. 

But that wasn’t by virtue of him being some super impactful defender, Denver legit just employed garbage cans as his backup(s). 

As soon as they got a backup big who wasn’t complete dogshit (Valanciunas this yr), Jokic’s def metrics “suddenly regressed” lol. 

Especially hart. Look at his tweet about Bible verses the other day

NBA front offices are becoming filled with ex players and still leaning into analytics; Mazzulla played d1 and has his team shooting so many 3’s, fans were calling for him to be fired despite him winning them a ring 2 years ago

Hart just sounds almost bizarrely misinformed, like he’s stuck in 2017

Ironically some of the main advanced on/off stats love Josh Hart.

I know it’s not your intention but reducing how big of a nerd Eric Tulsky is to just an analytics blog writer is a disservice.

This guy has a Bachelors in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard, a PhD from Cal Berkeley in Chemistry, and is named in 27 patents focused on battery nanotechnology from a decade in Silicon Valley research. Oh and hes a Stanley Cup Champion

Okay, still both deeply stupid things

I’m sure he’s been saying dumb shit since he learned to speak.

So he got lucky his stupidity was under the radar until he made very stupid comments.

Not sure that’s a good defense on his part

“I do not endorse any of these comments whatsoever”

Lmao that’s absolutely not what his expression was inferring. More like “I kind of agree but it was kind of bold/reckless to say it openly.”

Watching Hart actively destroy his reputation

At some point we gotta get Josh Hart to Minnesota with Ant and LaMelo, those press conferences could be the funniest thing to ever happen to sports.

That’s a thing ? WTF. America is even more fucked than I initially thought. Need to update my spreadsheet

Percentages are for nerds

There’s also no reason to. Life has very much worked out for them and their life choices are validated financially, professionally, socially, romantically and sexually.

Do you think comments like this helps, hurts, or doesn’t have any effect on racism towards minority groups?

Many minorities are of the belief that they can never be racist, despite holding deeply hateful and bigoted views.

Since they’re well aware of racism against themselves, it helps to imagine what you’d think of a statement like this if it was a white guy saying “analytics isn’t for black people”.