Tag: Passing
                                                            
                                  NBA Draft 2025: Developing a New Method for Projecting and Evaluating Playmaking                              
                              
                                  
                              
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                                      25 Jun 2025
                              
                          
                      No part of basketball captivates me like beautiful passing does. Possibly reflective of my basketball strengths and weaknesses, I’ve always felt partial to brilliant players with a sixth sense for playmaking. Hours of watching Jason Williams, Steve Nash and Chris Paul passing highlights growing up led me to my most ambitious scouting project to date. […]
                                                            
                                  NBA Draft 2025: Hand-Tracking The Best Passers in the Draft                              
                              
                                  
                              
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                                      13 Jun 2025
                              
                          
                      Traditional measures of passing struggle to fully capture a player’s level of playmaking. All assists and turnovers aren’t created equally, yet they’re weighed as such in basic stats. I aimed to create hand-tracked, subjective measures of passing quality to better estimate a player’s passing quality. Inspired by Pro Football Focus’s “Big Time Throw” metric, I […]
 
                               
                               
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
         
         
         
         
         
         
                 
                 
                 
                