Lev Akabas: Explaining Why There's So Many Historic NBA Statlines + Trade Deadline Trends + Next 81 Point Game - a podcast by Kyle
from 2023-01-12T08:03
On today's episode, we are joined by Lev Akabas, A Data Visualization Analyst who broke down why league wide trends and good luck explain why we are seeing such incredibly high statlines in the last two months of NBA basketball. Lev's data moves us down a nerdy rabbit hole of most valuable shots, heliocentrism, and the increase in talent, specifically wings who can score 20 PPG, across the league. We also discuss why defensive guards like Alex Caruso will have premium value at the trading deadline, and why a player like Kelly Oubre might have less value than ever before. We also discuss what it might take to match Kobe's 81 points in a game, and simple ways the NBA efficiency ratings will keep going up over the next three years (offensive rebounds and midrange shot rates)
Here's the thread from Lev with the accompanying graphics we discuss: "3-part hypothesis for why we're seeing so many insane stat lines in the NBA:
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