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2024-25 Player Rankings

Here is a list of the most valuable players in the league when it comes to winning a championship right now. They are organized into 6 tiers, A+, A, A-, B+,B ,B-, and Contracts are ignored. Let me know how much you like the list on Twitter @taylormetrics Metrics that will be cited often in…

How Good Is Cade Cunningham Right Now? An Analytics Focused Scouting Report

One of the most difficult things in the NBA is trying to evaluate a young player on a bad team. Cade Cunningham is an extreme version of this type of situation. He was the first overall pick in the 2021 draft and posted promising box score numbers but putrid efficiency (89TS+) as a rookie. Then…

Ranking The Last Decade Of Championship Runs By Difficulty

People love to talk about how certain teams had a cakewalk on their way to a title and how other teams had to journey to Mordor. It consumes hours of debate shows and fills up the phone lines for sports radio segments. These arguments are often loud, spoken word manifestos delivered by shock jocks looking…

Evaluating Jerami Grant – A Comprehensive Analytics Focused Scouting Report

Jerami Grant is a 10-year vet heading into his age 30 season. At 6’7 he’s always been an intriguing wing who at his best, is a positive on both ends of the floor. This is a data-driven scouting report/trade value analysis meant to quickly get you up to speed on where this player excels and…

Why LeBron Is No Longer A Top-10 Player

The day has come. LeBron is no longer a top 10 player. It’s strange to think or even say. He’s been elite since the George W. Bush administration. I remember following his ascension on sports talk radio on my Zune. However, his play has begun to slip in recent years and he isn’t able to…

Basketball Index’s 2024 All-Defensive Teams

Presenting Basketball Index’s 2024 All-Defensive Teams. These results are a combination of BBI staff ballots as well as a ballot submitted for LEBRON are all in one metric. We have a third All-Defense team because it never made sense to us why there were only two.   A few metrics that will be cited heavily…

Basketball Index’s 2024 ALL-NBA Teams

Presenting Basketball Index’s 2024 All-NBA Teams. These results are a combination of BBI staff ballots as well as a ballot submitted on behalf of LEBRON our all-in-one metric. A few metrics that will be cited heavily in the article are LEBRON, Playmaking Talent, and Shooting Talent/Shot Making. LEBRON is our all-in-one metric that takes the…

The Evolution Of Shooting Stats

Way back when shooting stats were very straightforward. Points and field goal percentage were king. Fast forward a few decades and the addition of the three-point line created a problem with FG%. A player could make fewer shots but produce more points if the majority of their makes came behind the 3-point line. In the…

February NBA Power Rankings

Taylor Wyman (@taylormetrics) uses advanced luck-adjusted net rating to help sort through the league and provide more accurate power rankings. ALA net rating attempts to predict net rating for the rest of the season using the 4 factors but with eFG% split out into shot quality and shot making. It’s more predictive because it will…

Taylor Wyman’s 2024 Mid-Season Player Rankings

I’m doing things a little bit different this time. I’ve tiered every above-average player in the league, the tiers go from A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, and C+. On top of that, I’ve ranked the top 48 players in order. The reason I stopped there was because in the lower tiers things are more…