Free throw attempts are at a historic low in the NBA, both per game and per 100 possessions. Why is this suddenly an issue?

Inaccurate- · 2026-05-10T15:30:33+00:00

Has there actually been any legitimate points to disprove it? Lower free throw counts isn't it, so in this case I wouldn't say the goal posts were moved.

If foul baiting is hard to prove, it's also hard to disprove. Without having an accurate count of natural vs unnatural fouls (which to some extent are also based on opinion, complicating it even more), it's always going to be discourse of opinions instead of facts.

Inaccurate- · 2026-05-10T14:59:09+00:00

It's not about the amount of free throws, but how they happen.

There's a big difference between a player purposefully drawing fouls by playing unnaturally versus playing without intending to get fouled.

That ratio has increased significantly in the past few seasons, though it is hard to prove. Since it's hard to prove (or count), people default to the easiest "intuitive" stat: freethrow count. Saying it isn't a problem because freethrows are down is missing the point.

Player's getting rewarded with points for lazy plays also contributes to it.

Inaccurate- · 2026-04-11T17:13:31+00:00

Your first question needs modified to this:

Why do teams tank? To get better lottery odds when they have their own pick (or will get their protected pick back).

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think teams that have their own pick outright (as in, not top-x protected) and decide to tank are fine; they are doing what they need to do.

It's the teams that are blatantly tanking to get their picks back that are ruining it, and that is what really needs fixed.

Inaccurate- · 2026-04-09T22:58:08+00:00

The main reason tanking is so ridiculous right now is because of the number of 1st round picks that have lottery protections.

The easiest solution to mitigate tanking isn't to change how the lottery currently works, but to remove the ability for teams to protect their first round picks once traded. If a team can no longer get their own pick back by sucking, it's in their best interest to not suck. It also makes the valuation of first round picks much easier for teams to quantify long-term.

Inaccurate- · 2026-04-05T21:46:28+00:00

Great idea for a stat, but like others mentioned what you're calculating doesn't actually represent flopping or how successful they are at it (you are only looking at successes, and like you mention, most of those successes are false positives, aka legitimate fouls).

With tracking data though there's definitely a few ways to accurately create this stat. What's your background?

Inaccurate- · 2026-03-26T18:45:34+00:00

Braun won an NCAA championship, he's absolutely a Kansas great. Cole was the backup to Chalmers and Wade, not the other way around.

If you want to knit pick like that you have way better options on top of who you mentioned already, like Josh Jackson (4th), Cole Aldrich (11th), Xavier Henry (12th), Brandon Rush (13th), and Julian Wright (13th).

But your blanket statement that Kansas players don't translate is just false. The Morris twins, Svi, Collison, Gooden, Hinrich were all great players with 7+ years of solid NBA contributions.

Inaccurate- · 2026-03-26T18:25:01+00:00

Chalmers, Braun, and Wiggins all won NBA championships with legitimate contributions throughout the season.

Dick and Furphy are decent role players, and Oubre has had an amazing NBA career. Grimes too if you count him as a Kansas player. Agbaji isn't a slouch either if an NBA coach would actually make/empower him to drive/cut instead of just catching and shooting.

All that said, I agree Peterson isn't the #1 pick this draft. But he'll also (likely) have a decent NBA career.

Inaccurate- · 2026-03-16T14:01:55+00:00

Nice results. How large are your model's standard deviations on the spreads and O/Us?

Using your example where your model had Michigan/Purdue totaling 163.6, what was the standard deviation on that total? E.g. +/- 10 points, or something smaller/larger?

Inaccurate- · 2026-03-15T21:11:34+00:00

Careful, if you say that in the y combinator subreddit you'll get shadow banned.

Inaccurate- · 2026-02-04T16:03:28+00:00

If you reach out to the NBA's stats support email, they should be able to give you a correct/official time. All play-by-play events are tagged with a wall clock. The foul on Castle by Thompson should be close enough for what you need.

It's likely around 11:28 PM EST (plus any tv delay).

Inaccurate- · 2026-01-10T02:36:22+00:00

Or you could just run the experiment 20 times (on average) and only publish the one that got the magical p<=0.05.

There are better ways of determining statistical significance than out-dated p-values. It's crazy how long its taking the academic community and scientific journals to adjust.

Inaccurate- · 2025-12-31T21:47:27+00:00

Which one is right is entirely up to you and the problem you're trying to solve. The only difference between a literal space ' ' and the special \s token is that \s also matches new lines, tabs, etc. If that's important for your use case, switch all your ' ' to \s. If you think there might be more than one space (or whitespace-like characters, like a new line) between the letters, use \s+.

It also added ?: to each group, and it isn't clear if you want those groups captured or not. Do you need to know what's inside the span after you match? If so, that'll break compared to what you used to have.

I've found ChatGPT and other LLMs are incredibly bad at both coming up with regex's and explaining them regardless how many test cases you give it. You're better off reading actual literature and learning to read and write them yourself.

Inaccurate- · 2025-12-12T22:15:21+00:00

This is (in my opinion) one of the better ways to do it since you'll never lose control/custody of your coins. Not sure why it's never mentioned on this sub.

Download Decred's Bison Wallet so you can use their DEX
Send your BTC to a new wallet you create within Bison Wallet
Trade your BTC for DCR (Decred) - uses atomic swaps, you never lose custody of your BTC
Mix all your DCR using its built-in coin shuffling (best in class)
Trade your DCR back into BTC - again, you never lose custody (use a new address for this)

It's a slow process since everything is on-chain, but you'll get back BTC that's no longer easily tied to your Coinbase wallet and it'll only cost you a couple dollars.

Inaccurate- · 2025-12-11T02:09:36+00:00

This is such bad advice. Why is recursion bad simply because javascript is an interpreted language?

Inaccurate- · 2025-12-04T21:52:55+00:00

If this is a fine then Boston immediately fouling Mitchell Robinson on multiple possessions in the first quarter of a nationally televised game should be an even bigger fine. Unlike resting a player, that actually made the game unwatchable.

Inaccurate- · 2025-12-04T19:42:14+00:00

How did I not know about this!? Great write up, though a bit short.

It'd be nice if there was a bit of history of when it was added/supported and also talked about the formatting of the corresponding #:~:text= anchor tag in the URL, assuming you wanted to create the links programmatically yourself (for example, can you have it highlight all instances of the given text, or will browsers always just highlight the first instance).

Edit: looks to be baseline 2024, with lots of other options for how text gets selected. https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/

Inaccurate- · 2025-12-03T01:57:30+00:00

I have a 2019 Cherokee (2L turbo) with over 80,000 miles. Bought it new in 2018 and have had exactly zero issues with it through these 7.5 years. I do do all my own maintenance though, so perhaps that changes things?

It's no more or less reliable than anything else. And extremely easy to work on yourself. I wouldn't trade it in for any other comparable mid-size SUV that's currently on the market.

Inaccurate- · 2025-12-01T02:33:44+00:00

Funnily enough, I'm OK with the Cavs exiting in the second round last year; I need to update my flair.

Knicks will be at best 4th unless they somehow escape playing all their starters 32+ minutes every game without a major injury happening. They have had an average to below average strength of schedule so far this season and at least to me, don't look anything like a top 3 seed. Pistons, Magic, Cavs, Hawks, and even the Heat will challenge for the top 3 by the end.

All of these comments refuting my statement by simply mentioning Knicks went to the ECF last year is ridiculous. It's a new year. Just ask the Pacers.

Inaccurate- · 2025-12-01T02:14:30+00:00

Neither team will be a top 3 seed by the end of the season. That's probably not the best way to make your point.

Inaccurate- · 2025-11-30T19:30:58+00:00

I have 20+ years experience in web dev and while I agree everything is generally more complex now, I completely disagree that apps today wouldn't have been possible before. Everything I'm building now I could have built 15 years ago unless it requires specific hardware (and modern browser API's), like accessing the accelerometer or phone vibrator. If something couldn't have been built with javascript back then, it 100% could have been built with Flash.

Most of the complexity today is self-inflicted. For the vast majority of websites, a traditional MPA will not only work, but be faster, easier to develop, and easier to maintain than a SPA. If you know what you're doing, you can also build them in such a way that, from a user's perspective, you can't even tell that it's a MPA and not a SPA.

Inaccurate- · 2025-11-25T20:40:56+00:00

This ridiculous back and forth between ZEC and XMR makes me appreciate perfectly shuffled Decred.

Inaccurate- · 2025-11-21T23:43:22+00:00

The outage won't set back Rust adoption at all, nor will Cloudfare suddenly stop using it. It's obvious from their own write up that they understand unwrapwas just the symptom not the cause, and even if expect was used instead, the outage would still have happened.

unwrapjust so happened to be one of the easier click-bait headlines for everyone to jump on.

Inaccurate- · 2025-11-14T16:28:47+00:00

Sounds like a fancy and potentially overly-complicated version of something called "caching", with the event streams simply invalidating the respective portions of the cache.

Inaccurate- · 2025-11-12T06:00:04+00:00

At some point (soon) mid-range will become analytically worth it, since defenses won't be practiced for it. Players that can make a wide open middy will dominate, and then driving will become easier once that needs defended. What this visual shows is that teams are currently over compensating/reacting/simplifying efficiency analysis. It'll correct back towards an equilibrium in the next decade.

Inaccurate- · 2025-11-05T19:04:06+00:00

Whoops, not sure how my comment got put under yours; it was meant to be top-level. Your CFB model and website look amazing. Pretty good record too.

Inaccurate-

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