Episodes
Taylor explains why shot quality stats are useful by explaining the context they provide
Published 12/19/23
Taylor gives 20 random facts about the NBA season so far, some are insightful, and others just take up space in his brain
Published 12/16/23
Taylor goes through teams 16-30 and gives his 2 cents about the direction of each team's season so far. December NBA Power Ranking Article: https://www.bball-index.com/december-nba-power-rankings/
Published 12/12/23
Taylor uses luck-adjusted net rating to help cut through the noise of early season in his first power rankings of the season Full article here: https://www.bball-index.com/december-nba-power-rankings/
Published 12/08/23
Taylor uses luck-adjusted net rating to determine which teams have been the most and least luckiest to start the season
Published 12/06/23
Taylor goes through the Bulls roster and looks at what contending teams could add via trade. Here is the companion article: https://www.bball-index.com/stripping-the-bulls-for-parts/
Published 12/02/23
Taylor uses Adjusted Big-Time Scoring and BBI data to determine how good Dame is right now.
Published 09/24/23
Taylor uses Wins above contract to see which players outperformed their contract value last season.
Published 09/21/23
Taylor goes through Team USA's roster construction and points out 3 glaring flaws: their youth, lack of playmaking outside of their guards, and lack of rebounding and high-end drop coverage defenders.
Published 09/14/23
Taylor talks about some incorrect assumptions people make about analytics. People often say any player who takes a lot of 3s is an "analytics guy". That's not always true.
Published 09/09/23
Taylor answers listener questions and reacts to Christian Wood signing with the Lakers
Published 09/06/23
Taylor ranks the top 5 offseasons by franchise Here is a link to the article sighted in the ep: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10081526-grading-every-nba-teams-offseason-so-far
Published 09/02/23
Taylor uses BBI data to determine how good Austin Reaves in right now
Published 08/30/23
Taylor uses BBI's data to determine how good Anthony Edwards is right now
Published 08/28/23
Taylor Uses BBI's new teammate stats to determine who had the most and least amount of help in the league last season
Published 08/23/23
Taylor uses LEBRON WAR to determine the top 10 most impactful rookie seasons of the last decade
Published 08/20/23
Taylor chats with Steve Palazzolo about his career in sports analytics. Steve talks about the different hats he wore while helping build Pro Football Focus.
Published 08/16/23
Taylor explains a stat he co-created, Defensive Playmaking. Its made up of steals, deflections, offensive fouls drawn, blocks recovered, and blocks not recovered.
Published 08/11/23
Taylor uses regular season and playoff LEBRON to evaluate AD's value
Published 08/09/23
taylor uses age, length of deal, and AAV to determine the 10 best deals in the league. No rookies or top 20 players
Published 07/28/23
Taylor ranks the top 10 worst contracts in the league. He takes into account, age, years, and AAV
Published 07/26/23
Taylor uses BBI data to create a criteria for what makes a 3&D player. 24 players made the list this season
Published 07/22/23
Taylor looks at the top age 36+ seasons over the last decade to find out how likely high-level play is for current aging stars
Published 07/20/23
Taylor and Filippos Polyzos co-created a stat that compares the big time scoring seasons from across the different era's of the NBA
Published 07/13/23
Taylor uses BBI's new rim protection stat to define the top 10 rim protectors from last season
Published 07/11/23