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Who’s Up And Who’s Down In Our NBA Player Ratings

It’s been a few weeks now since the NBA tipped off its 2019-20 schedule — plenty of time for each team to play a few games, and for some themes to emerge from the new campaign. So with the season in full swing, we’re thrilled to roll out our current RAPTOR player ratings, which you […]

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The Best NBA Players Of The Last 6 Seasons

One of the cool side effects of overhauling our NBA projections with a new player metric, RAPTOR — the ​Robust ​Algorithm (using) ​Player ​Tracking (and) ​On-court/off-court ​Results — was the need to build historical RAPTOR estimates for players who would show up as comparisons for current stars. That means we have a brand-new set of […]

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