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Bottom 5 Tm Ratings accounting for injury situation via Taylor Snarr's EPM model Mavericks 3rd-worst team in NBA, currently 10th seed in West with three-game lead on PHX, four-game lead on POR.

Checking in on the 2024-25 value +/- chart (relative to actual contracts) Biggest takeaways?

Last week I emailed Basketball Reference to see if they'd share their pageviews for each NBA player this season. I wanted to know if any impact players had been flying under the radar this year. One name stood out This week on The F5 👇

After losses to the Bulls and Bucks, the ninth-seeded Kings now have an 11.5% chance of missing the play-in tournament altogether, per Taylor Snarr's projections. Domantas Sabonis out another week-plus.

I asked the creators of DARKO, EPM, LEBRON, and xRAPM whether it was appropriate for people to use their metrics when debating the MVP and their thoughts about the race more broadly. 🧵thread

EPM via Taylor Snarr

Here are the 55 leading players in Estimated Plus-Minus last season (value represented by the circle). The arrows represent their EPM this season.

The same for ATL below. You can basically see where they ran into cap issues and gradually shed important pieces from their 2021 ECF team and got worse. Given how young the core roster is, their team EPM might have bottomed for awhile - uptrending again and roughly breakeven.

The most impactful super young players in the NBA, according to Taylor Snarr's EPM 👇

I was able to resuscitate the inpredictabe live win probability charts in time for the playoffs. Link: stats.inpredictable.com/nba/wpBox_live…

Number of days ranked 1st in EPM since the 2020-21 season

Alex Caruso is the most impactful perimeter defender in the league (on a per-possession basis) according to Synergy Player Impact, and DARKO, And also, EPM.