We are back for Round 5 of Tin Hat Stats! All the unsustainable stats you could ask for kept popping up left and right during February. Thanks to the shorter month, combined with the All-Star break, these numbers are some of the best yet. In
Tin Hat Stats is back for month No. 3! The small-sample-size theatre is re-opened and inviting you to return for another presentation. During the spectacle from the previous month, we talked about how the New York Knicks Knicks would eventually start hitting their threes from the
Paul George made an Association-altering decision to extract himself from the Indiana Pacers, which redefined the landscape of basketball in both Indiana and Oklahoma City. For me, the Indianapolis resident, the Pacers podcast host, the basketball writer and the advanced stats dork, writing this piece
Welcome to the second production of Tin Hat Stats here at the small-sample theatre! Last month, we talked about the inevitable fall of Nikola Vucevic’s true shooting percentage (it fell from 62.4 to 55.2), the eventual rise of the Houston Rockets three-point numbers (they are
Let’s take a stroll through the league leaders in NBA Math’s defensive points saved metric. As of November 15th, two guards sit in the top 10: 6’10” rookie point guard Ben Simmons is positioned fourth. Then, currently sitting at No. 7, we have Los Angeles Lakers
Nothing about Brandon Ingram’s career has been equitable for him. He came into the league with unbelievably high expectations, then finished his rookie season dead last in the entire league in NBA Math’s TPA metric. Rookies tend to be bad, so this isn’t shocking by any
People wore tin hats on their heads to prevent mind control less than a century ago. People were worried the Houston Rockets’ offense might actually be bad because they were last in the league in three-point percentage less than 10 days ago. I, for one,
The “Superman” Dwight Howard days have been gone longer than the era of MVP Derrick Rose. He doesn’t block six percent of opponents’ shots anymore like he did with the 2009-10 Orlando Magic. He isn’t the athletic freak who won the Slam Dunk Contest in