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Early Season SRS and Ratings

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z366m-c6018f Solo pod this week! Just wanted to take a look at some notable early season performances and talk about what I’d expect to continue and what will change. I talked about the Heat, 76ers, Lakers, Jazz, Suns, Raptors, Rockets, Kings, and Bulls.   Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertAntle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertantle/ E-mail: robert.antle@gmail.com

First games and watching film with Mike De La Rosa

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xamyr-c4a625 This week we’re joined by Mike De La Rosa who is the video coordinator for Thinking Basketball with Ben Taylor. Mike and I talked about our initial impressions from the first 2 days of NBA basketball and also what it’s like breaking down film for Thinking Basketball and some of his takeaways for specific …

Former Philadelphia 76ers Director of Analytics – Aaron Barzilai

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mniy8-c36c7b This week we’re joined by Aaron Barzilai, founder of Her Hoop Stats and former Director of Analytics for the Philadelphia 76ers. We talk about his path to the NBA and different aspects of what it was like to work in an NBA front office. We also talked about his most recent endeavor: Her Hoop …

Predictive win %, luck adjustments, SPR, and more with Nathan Walker

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rhxu9-c2952d This week Nathan Walker joins the show to talk about his luck-adjusted net rating model that was used in Jacob Goldstein’s PIPM metric, as well as some of the other things he’s been working on.   You can find Nathan and his work here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbstats Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bbstats/posts   Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertAntle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertantle/ Blog: https://basketballstat.home.blog/

Best lineups for the 2019-20 season with Mike Bossetti

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bih2j-c1d559 This week Mike Bossetti joins me to discuss what we think will be the best 5-man lineups for the upcoming season. You can find Mike’s work on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikebosports Nylon Calculus: https://fansided.com/author/mbossetti/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertAntle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertantle/ Blog: https://basketballstat.home.blog/

PIPM with Jacob Goldstein

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8a7mm-c14144 This week we’re joined by Jacob Goldstein! Jacob created PIPM (Player Impact Plus Minus) so we brought him on to talk about how he created the stat and what all goes into it. You can find his work online at https://www.bball-index.com/ and his writing at https://fansided.com/author/jgoldstein/.   Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertAntle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertantle/ Blog: https://basketballstat.home.blog/

5 Most Intriguing Players for the 2019-20 Season with Stevie Cozens and Sam Shin

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tgqxa-c05f46 This week is a departure from the stats series I’ve been doing. I asked two of my friends from SBC, Stevie Cozens and Sam Shin, to join me and we each go through our 5 most intriguing players for the 2019-20 season. It’s a much longer conversation as we get into pretty detailed discussion …

CARMELO

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-m2gmv-bf484e This week we’re looking at a statistic by FiveThirtyEight called CARMELO. This stat is a fun projection system used to predict a player’s career arc developed by Nate Silver. I didn’t do a deep dive article into how the stat is calculated since not all of the information is available, but I still took …

BPM: Box Plus/Minus

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i7pan-bec260 This week on the show, we’re looking at a box score stat called Box Plus/Minus (BPM)! Like with each of these, we’ll talk a bit about the history of the stat, how it’s calculated, and we’ll take a look at some player comparisons from past seasons.   Here’s a link to the article I …

RAPM: Regularized Adjusted Plus/Minus

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jyiyy-bddbbb This week, we’re going to look at our first stat in the plus/minus family called Regularized Adjusted Plus/Minus (RAPM). Like with each of these, we’ll talk a bit about the history of the stat, how it’s calculated, and we’ll take a look at some player comparisons from the most recent seasons.   My article …