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Thank you for putting these together as always, Mike!

I'm wondering if there is a minutes weighting vs. Possession weighting discrepancy in adding up the 7 games. I can't remember how that's done at the moment.

In other words... Do we weight by game or by minute or by possession?

The minutes weighted average BPM for a playoff game should be exactly equal to the minutes weighted average of those players regular season BPMs.

So if the average BPM was slightly lower in game two that indicates a few more minutes for slightly lower regular season BPM players.

Crow wrote: ↑Fri Apr 25, 2025 7:19 pm https://shiny.sradjoker.cc/NBA-Playoff-Probabilities/

Wow, that's a very interesting tool!

Kawhi last night in game 2 vs. the Nuggets was on the edge of this list.

Game score 37.4, BPM 24.5, 39 minutes played in a 3 point win. GmBPM of 19.9.

Here were my picks, realized I hadn't posted them here yet.

Thunder in five
Nuggets in seven
Lakers in seven
Warriors in six

Cavs in five
Pacers in five
Knicks in six
Celtics in four

We can just double the scoring for round 2, triple for CF, quadruple for the Finals. If you're behind in later rounds, you might pick the underdogs. It makes sense to me to guess each round as they arrive. Doing all in advance as you did, you leave default picks for the next round, if you don't cha...

“between the two methodologies - % of production* per game - predicting RAPM and/or +/- stint data“ This is an important distinction. Percent of production is a pretty self-evident approach, but it doesn't correlate directly to point differential on the court and thus wins (the ultimate goal). The o...

Another monster game microburst last night, including a new #1 for the season. Top 10 chronologically: gsbg date who min TS% Pt Rb As St Bk TO GmSc BPM 31.1 11.10 Jokic 38 .75 37 18 15 3 0 4 44.8 27.2 32.7 11.13 Giannis 44 .71 59 14 7 2 3 3 54.2 21.7 31.2 12.15 Luka 38 .83 45 11 13 3 2 3 48.7 25.3 ...

Here were the Vegas odds for the last 10 finals

https://www.oddsshark.com/nba/nba-final ... -odds-list

Neil Paine has his live playoff predictions as well, posted at: https://neilpaine.substack.com/p/2024-25-nba-forecast He weights prior year playoff performance more, which pushes Boston up and OKC and Cleveland down. Note, it's a fairly simple model that does not include player movement between seas...

.... I've seen casual comments that indicate a 1.0 BPM player is only half as good as when he was 2.0; this makes sense like saying 20*F is twice as cold as 40* maybe? :) Now VORP declares another level to be zero, and it's negotiable; but there's some motivation to establish this baseline. And we ...

OK so using my example the .075 WS/48 players -- Nembhard, Markkanen, Beal -- are #135-137 of 182 qualifying. In BPM the #136 guy is -1.6. Does it seem counterintuitive to say those players are 75% as productive/efficient (proficient?) as NBA average? Or does it feel right to say they do more negat...

Using a metric that is not 'points above or below NBA avg' -- along the lines of WS/48, in which zero=zero -- would you say a .075 player has Half the positive impact that a .150 player has? There is no baseline that is non-negotiable besides NBA average. Point differential does translate to wins s...

John Hollinger had an interesting article recently about the incentives to tank. He indicated that at this point it's not the appeal of the lottery or draft picks that's driving bad teams to not play their best players. It's that if you are out of playoff contention anyway, the incentive is to rest ...