Welcome to The Lab, FiveThirtyEight’s basketball podcast. To celebrate the start of the NBA playoffs, we have two shows for you this week. Thursday’s episode (April 12, 2018) breaks down the first round in the Western Conference, where the Golden State Warriors are no longer in the pole position. Instead it’s the Houston Rockets, who […]
Welcome to The Lab, FiveThirtyEight’s basketball podcast. To celebrate the start of the NBA playoffs, we have two shows for you this week. Thursday’s episode (April 12, 2018) breaks down the first round in the Western Conference, where the Golden State Warriors are no longer in the pole position. Instead it’s the Houston Rockets, who […]
At long last, it’s time to put regular-season basketball in the rearview mirror and move on to the NBA’s main event — the playoffs are finally here! And FiveThirtyEight is here, too, to help predict how it’ll all go down. With the help of our CARM-Elo projection model, and the betting odds as a second […]
At long last, it’s time to put regular-season basketball in the rearview mirror and move on to the NBA’s main event — the playoffs are finally here! And FiveThirtyEight is here, too, to help predict how it’ll all go down. With the help of our CARM-Elo projection model, and the betting odds as a second […]
Welcome to The Lab, FiveThirtyEight’s basketball podcast. On this week’s show (March 22, 2018), Neil, Chris and Kyle break down the Houston Rockets’ potential. Has James Harden all but locked up the MVP award this year? And is a Rockets vs. Golden State Warriors Western Conference final inevitable? Next, the Utah Jazz are on an […]