Anchorage Man
@sethpartnow
Current: Staff Product Scientist @ Teamworks Author: “The Midrange Theory” Prev: Director of Basketball Research @ Milwaukee Bucks. Dir. N. American Sports @ StatsBomb. NBA analysis @ The Athletic. NBA DS @ Penn Entertainment.
This fucking guy. Not even weighing the ideas, anybody who writes like this is too stupid to lead a bucket brigade let alone be a cabinet secretary.
An aging widower and his friends decide to emigrate with many people looking for them
On one hand, the quote itself is silly because because those “nuances” and “intangibles” have been visible in impact metrics for 15-20 years now. On the other hand Klay is a pretty good comp for Brown in terms of a guy who isn’t a top echelon superstar but can be very valuable to a contending team
Post from the bad site that does a good job explaining a big part of why US player dev is broken. Clubs have some really wack incentives
I think the possibility of coming up with passages like this that make people want to become writers (from The Guardian’s match report)
I don’t understand how this can be considered “breaking” news since we still have no idea what actually happened after reading this
Annual reminder number 2 (haven’t updated in a couple years, but it hasn’t changed meaningfully)
People sometimes ask me what being from Alaska is like and well, my dad sent this to me from his doorbell cam the other day
Here’s my thing. Lalas, like a lot of the sports punditry I hate, is “not for me.” I’m a snob. I get that. I think we should try to do better but whatever. The thing is, even in the sort of Ed McMahon-esque role to which he’s assigned, he executes it poorly.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the undefined ratio in the wild before