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NBA Data Science Manager @theScore/PENN. Author: “The Midrange Theory” Prev: Dir of N. American Sports @statsbomb Dir of Bball Research @bucks & @TheAthleticNBA

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It’s frustrating because xG is getting compared to astrophysics or whatever, but it’s an incredibly easy concept to explain and should make intuitive sense to experts. Plus commentators are fine being xG-adjacent. How often does one opine “team X has created the better chances?”

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This isn’t a front office problem, it’s a league office problem. Any solution that requires competitors to not do everything under the current ruleset to win is simply going to be ineffectual.

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Break twitter silence to opine that if this was implemented, it would be a morbid race to the bottom as to whether NBA offense or the newly-tariffed US economy would tank faster. It’s Laffer Curve bad analysis to even suggest it.

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“Just as good” despite Ant and McDaniels taking significant steps forward suggests to me they would have been better this year sans trade