Last season’s Golden State Warriors were a great story. Adding a new coach to what was already an exciting young core, they made The Leap and finally melded their talented roster into a champion — as well as one of the best teams in NBA history. But even after all that, the Warriors still had […]
Last season’s Golden State Warriors were a great story. Adding a new coach to what was already an exciting young core, they made The Leap and finally melded their talented roster into a champion — as well as one of the best teams in NBA history. But even after all that, the Warriors still had […]
Here at FiveThirtyEight HQ, we’ve been pretty excited about the upcoming 2015-16 NBA season. OK, that’s a bit of an understatement. For starters, we rolled out CARMELO, our system for predicting the career of every NBA player, and we’ve been encouraging all who will listen to check out their favorite player’s projection. (Yes, our friends […]
Here at FiveThirtyEight HQ, we’ve been pretty excited about the upcoming 2015-16 NBA season. OK, that’s a bit of an understatement. For starters, we rolled out CARMELO, our system for predicting the career of every NBA player, and we’ve been encouraging all who will listen to check out their favorite player’s projection. (Yes, our friends […]
NBA player rankings, from ESPN’s #NBARank to Bill Simmons’s annual trade value column, are like the honey butter chips of sportswriting: just way too hard to resist. So — with the regular season starting today — here’s our special recipe, fueled by CARMELO, our new NBA player projection system. What makes our version a little […]
