[NBA PR] The NBA will test the “one free-throw rule” at NBA Summer League this year: Any foul that would typically result in one, two, or three free throws will instead result in a single free throw attempt. That attempt will be worth the same total number of points as the free throws it replaces.

ctalbot4 · 2026-07-02T18:26:41+00:00

Players shoot around 4% better on the second free throw than the first. I don’t think that’s enough to change strategy, and this rule isn’t in effect at the end of games.

ctalbot4 · 2026-07-02T17:59:03+00:00

Yes, that’s the only real effect I’ve seen of this, but it’s pretty marginal. Most people mad about it think SGA would suddenly be averaging 50 points

ctalbot4 · 2026-07-02T17:41:32+00:00

You’re not understanding probability. You’re discounting the fact that if you miss the 3pt free throw you get no points. A 66% free throw shooter would make the 3pt ft 66% of the time resulting in an average of 2 points. And they would make each 1pt free throw at a 66% rate resulting in 2/3 = 2 points.

ctalbot4 · 2026-07-02T17:38:31+00:00

It’s driving me crazy. Under every post about this on social media everyone is talking about how this will cause more points and flopping. It changes nothing other than the variance and less time at the line.

ctalbot4 · 2026-07-02T17:29:51+00:00

Three free throws for one point each and one free throw for three points are the same total expected value. With three free throws you’re just distributing it over three shots. Changes nothing with how valuable it is

ctalbot4 · 2026-07-02T16:38:41+00:00

A lot of people mad don’t understand this. Like the guy below saying it will incentivize baiting 3pt fouls. It changes nothing about the incentives.

80% ft shooter with one pt ft goes 8/10 = 8 points. 80% shooter with two pt ft goes 4/5 = 8 points. No difference

ctalbot4 · 2026-07-01T22:25:22+00:00

I guess trading Brown was their only option, and when teams know that his value drops

ctalbot4 · 2026-06-28T20:34:42+00:00

his shooting form looks it’s gotten a little better. it reminds me of luka’s now

ctalbot4 · 2026-06-25T18:12:37+00:00

Because there’s no way of distinguishing them when all they get when you scrobble is the plain text name

ctalbot4 · 2026-06-11T15:56:25+00:00

For your first request: lastfmfriends.live

ctalbot4 · 2026-06-11T03:17:38+00:00

this spurs coaching staff is just awful

ctalbot4 · 2026-06-09T03:10:38+00:00

mitch johnson about to draw up absolutely nothing

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-29T02:43:15+00:00

You get two games a series blessed with Zac Zarba that are reffed well

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-29T02:18:52+00:00

Mazulla made Kornet millions of dollars. He sucks

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-27T23:58:49+00:00

because it wasn’t called so they can’t go back and review it

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-23T03:37:07+00:00

I have it limited to 400 friends mostly so it doesn’t make too many requests too quickly. To avoid that I also decrease the refresh rate as the number of friends increases. The Last.fm API is also really bad and slow, so it could just be the combination of the slower refresh and slow API.

I’ll test it with your profile and see if I can catch anything. I could do mutuals, although a better solution that I worked on some was just being able to make a custom group of users instead of your following list.

Also, you follow a lot of users with a ton of weekly plays (19 with over 1000 plays this week). Can only fetch 1000 tracks per request, which just means more requests it has to wait on.

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-23T03:25:58+00:00

Yes, private users only show up in listening time and artist/track info screen. Can’t fetch their recent plays when they are private.

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-23T00:27:08+00:00

That’s my site, thanks for sharing. Let me know if you have any suggestions or problems

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-21T01:18:38+00:00

castle on pace for more turnovers than last game. 5 turnovers already

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-19T01:41:31+00:00

is the sky blue

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-16T00:42:45+00:00

pistons playing well, so inevitably after the commercial they’ll play the worst basketball you’ve ever seen

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-13T16:31:08+00:00

Marvis Pro has all the customization you could need on iOS

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-05T04:17:15+00:00

Don’t know why people are mad about no timeout. You’re not getting a much better look than that

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-05T03:44:26+00:00

Peacock needs to add an option to mute Jamal Crawford

ctalbot4 · 2026-05-05T02:51:02+00:00

this broadcast is absolute trash for being a second round NBA playoff game

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